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Finance Watch: With Four More IPOs, July May Match Or Exceed June’s 14

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Public Company Edition: iTeos, Annexon, Nurix and Inozyme went public on 23 July and now CureVac has added its name to the IPO queue for what could be a large offering. Also, BioNTech raises $511.5m as COVID-19 vaccine progresses and PTC gets $650m from sale of risdiplam royalties. 

Finance Watch

Eleven biopharmaceutical companies have gone public in the US in July, raising $2.38bn through initial public offerings, including four IPOs on 24 July from Annexon Biosciences, iTeos Therapeutics Inc., Inozyme Pharma Inc. and Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.

Drug developers have successfully raised large sums of money in the US stock market despite the global economic uncertainty associated...

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China Signals Restarting IPOs For Unprofitable Biotechs

 
• By Dexter Jie Yan

The China Securities Regulatory Commission has proposed a new “growth tier” for the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, to reinstate the market’s listing standards for unprofitable firms.

BIO Notebook: Woodcock Calls For Doing The Right Thing, Dealmaking Remains Constrained

 
• By Mandy Jackson, Joseph Haas, and Sarah Karlin-Smith

Highlights from Day Four of the BIO International Convention include Woodcock offering practical advice on rare disease trials, the sorry state of dealmaking mid-year, Novartis discussing its approach to partnering, and Generate looking for funding to move into Phase III.

Syncona Looks To Go Private As Market Decline Deepens

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

While some are calling for Syncona to be wound up, the UK-based company believes many existing and new investors will back the creation of new private fund.

BIO Notebook: MFN Pricing, Next-Gen Obesity R&D, FDA’s Rare Disease Hub & Reaction To Review Program

 
• By Sarah Karlin-Smith, Mandy Jackson, and Alaric DeArment

Highlights from Day 3 of the BIO International Convention include the realities of MFN pricing, AstraZeneca's R&D plans for obesity, the need for resources for FDA's rare disease hub and reactions to the Commissioner's National Priority Review Voucher program.

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Quick Listen: Scrip’s Five Must-Know Things

 
• By Ian Haydock

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Asia Deal Watch: SunRock, Escugen Collaborate On CCR9-Targeted ADC

 
• By Joseph Haas, Lisa Takagi, Sushmita Panda, and Xu Hu

Axcelead/Lotte Biologics/Kanaph and NextCure/Simcere also unveil ADC-focused pacts, plus deals involving Avata/Oceanus, GSK/Bharat Biotech, Cullinan/Genrix and more.

Defying Gravity: Five Drugs That Surpassed Their Sales Forecasts

 
• By Edwin Elmhirst

Many assets outperform their pre-launch sales predictions despite the frequent overestimation of forecasts within the industry. In this article, Scrip highlights several such assets and the factors that influenced their predictions.