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The new United Kingdom-based firm has sites located in France, Spain, and Sweden, thanks to an acquisition of Synerlab Group and several Recipharm facilities in 2024.

New CDMO Meribel Pharma Solutions Launches with 13 Sites in Europe

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Siemens Acquires Dotmatics, Extending AI Software Portfolio into Life Sciences

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Sun Pharma Agrees to Acquire Checkpoint Therapeutics

While the boards of directors of both companies have approved the transaction, it is not expected to close until the second quarter of 2025, as Mayne Pharma’s shareholders must still vote in favor of the acquisition.

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Industry Outlook 2025: Looking at the Investment Environment

When reflecting on trends that shaped the bio/pharma industry in 2024, Miguel Forte, president of International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT), board member of Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, and CEO of Kiji Therapeutics, explains that the investment environment has been his primary thought. “Investment is the oil that gets everything moving and enables us to do the process development, the work, and the product development in the end,” he says.

While investment has been tough over recent years, Forte asserts that there was a slight pick-up in activity during 2024, albeit at a slow pace. “We also saw people looking into different opportunities,” he continues, “[which] in a way is telling us that companies are finding different ways of funding so that they can continue their activities.”

Moving into 2025, Forte anticipates that industry will witness two kinds of M&A: one being activity between similar-sized companies that will combine for synergistic reasons and to optimize costs, and the other being straight acquisitions that will take a technology into Big Pharma and accelerate the development of a therapy to the patient-level. “We're going to obviously be impacted by these bigger acquisitions, because it's bigger value, and we see the value of Big Pharma really taking these products to patients,” he adds. “But in the background, there's going to be a series of smaller deals that will have that synergizing ability, bringing two companies of similar size together with broader geographic scope, broader equity story proposition, and that's what we're going to see.”

Miguel Forte is president of International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy, board member of Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, and CEO of Kiji Therapeutics—a company developing engineered cell therapies for inflammatory diseases. Miguel holds an MD and a Specialist in Infectious Diseases from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, a PhD in Immunology from the University of Birmingham, and a certificate on Health Technology Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. Additionally, he is Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the RCP in the UK.

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In an interview with Pharmaceutical Technology®, Miguel Forte from ISCT and Kiji Therapeutics provides his insights into the M&A landscape from 2024 and his expectations of what is to come next.

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Interview with Ken Keller, president and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo, at US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Ken Keller, CEO of Daiichi Sankyo sat with 

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Relevant experience in the therapeutic area is also important. “Specifically, we work in oncology. So, if we're looking at a drug that has potential in breast cancer, we'll be looking for someone that's showing success in oncology in breast cancer very recently.”

Challenges involved in creating partnerships for developing therapies include creating a clinical data plan and committing to developing a stable supply chain going forward, Keller points out. “[A clinical data plan] is really the roadmap for whatever asset you have, that looks out five or 10 years, because sometimes it takes that long to complete the trials and the challenges, you've got to design them to deliver the evidence that not only prescribers will find attractive, but also payers.”

“I think it starts with the CEO and the C suite, doing something that only they can do. So as a leader, you've got to set the expectations for how bold you want that team to be,” says Keller. “The most important thing when two companies decide that they're going to do something together, is to really find a cohesive relationship, where you both believe that you can do more together than separately.”

Ken Keller, president and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo, discusses the foundation of partnership and takes a look at the future of biotech partnerships at the US Pharma and Biotech Summit.

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