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1. Post-Hoc: China deals are pharma’s new tax inversions 
2. Zymeworks CEO on why the Theravance deal is value for money
3. Evommune's lead drug fails in chronic hives, stock sinks
4. BioCryst ends internal discovery programs, will close Alabama research facility
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Biotech SPAC deal gets it to Nasdaq; AstraZeneca Phase 3 win in children's bone disease
6. Zymeworks to acquire troubled biotech Theravance in $929M deal
7. Ipsen to buy blood cancer company Kartos Therapeutics for $450M upfront
8. Sobi receives CRL for gout combination drug over manufacturing 
9. FDA approves Viridian's eye drug, stoking competition with Amgen's Tepezza
10. FDA advisory panels are back, with new meetings for Replimune, Capricor
11. EU regulators recommend revoking the marketing authorization for Amgen’s Tavneos
12. EU probes Sanofi for alleged smear campaign against rival flu vaccine
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Karen Weintraub
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A decade ago, companies relocating out of the US for tax purposes caught the eye of Washington. Today, it’s US companies forming deals with Chinese biotechs that are raising alarm bells in DC. Drew Armstrong writes about whether that parallel will stand.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Drew Armstrong

About a decade ago, when I had just start­ed cov­er­ing phar­ma, one of the biggest sto­ries was tax in­ver­sions. For those who don’t re­mem­ber, tax...

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Kenneth Galbraith, Zymeworks CEO
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by Elizabeth Cairns

On the face of it, near­ly $1 bil­lion seems like a lot to spend on a biotech like Ther­a­vance. The com­pa­ny was clear­ly run­ning out...

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by Max Gelman

Evom­mune's shares EVMN fell more than 30% on Mon­day morn­ing af­ter the biotech re­port­ed its first ma­jor tri­al read­out since go­ing pub­lic last year.

In...

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by Lei Lei Wu

BioCryst Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals is wind­ing down its own drug dis­cov­ery work, say­ing that it plans to look for fu­ture drug pro­grams ex­ter­nal­ly.

The com­pa­ny an­nounceda...

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