In a series A venture financing round, US-based biotechnology company Affigen has raised $17m to be utilised for advancing the company’s lead programmes in a number of haematological malignancies through pre-clinical validation and into phase I clinical studies.
Black Beret Life Sciences led the financing round on behalf of the company.
Albany Molecular Research (AMRI) Grupo Ferrer Internacional and Accord Healthcare will jointly develop and manufacture a complex parenteral drug product for registration and subsequent commercialisation in the US, under an agreement signed between the former and the latter two companies.
Grupo Ferrer will assist AMRI to develop and provide cGMP manufacturing and analytical support for the new product’s registration, while Accord Healthcare will help advance the product through regulatory submission and commercialisation.
AMRI and Accord Healthcare are based in the US, whereas Grupo Ferrer is based in Spain.
US-based biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has announced two underwritten public offerings of notes due 27 February 2019 and 27 February 2027, with respective coupon rates of 1.6% and 3.25% to raise gross proceeds of $750m each.
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By GlobalDataThe combined gross proceeds from the two offerings will be $1.5bn, which will be used to fund the company’s share repurchase programme and for general corporate purposes.
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Ally Bridge Group has invested in Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Galenica.
Galencia’s subsidiary, Vifor Pharma, provides pharmaceutical products for the treatment of chronic kidney disease.