Deal Snapshot: The company is looking to expand its pipeline beyond Alzheimer’s, where it hit a speedbump in September with the failure of a tau-targeting drug.
Who:AC Immune SA and AFFiRiS GmbH
What: On 27 July, AC Immune said it would acquire AFFiRiS’s portfolio of specific active immunotherapy (SAIT) anti-alpha-synuclein vaccine programs...
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Plus deals involving Roche/Vividion, Alto/Chase, Biogen/City Therapeutics, Sanofi/Nurix and Naya/Invo.
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