Deal Watch: AbbVie To Try Caraway’s Lysosomal Function Approach To Parkinson’s

Akebia brings in Cyclerion’s diabetes candidate praliciguat, plus deals involving Genmab/Bolt, Auris/Trasir, Zymergen/Lodo, Bavarian Nordic/Dynavax and more.

Deal Watch 2021

Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Biomedtracker.

AbbVie Inc. and Caraway Therapeutics unveiled a collaboration and option agreement on 9 June under which the pharma...

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