Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, agrees to acquire Silence Therapeutics for roughly $1.3 billion, gaining a siRNA asset, divesiran.

Roche licenses Rona Therapeutics’ ALK7-targeting RNAi candidate for obesity, while Pfizer partners with Enodia Therapeutics on Sec61 inhibitor discovery.

As CROs, labs, and other outside partners gain early access to trial and FDA data that sponsor employees have, experts say closing the gap starts with rewriting confidentiality language.

Alcon is acquiring Neurotech Pharmaceuticals to add the only FDA-approved MacTel cell therapy to its retina portfolio, while AI Proteins has enters a collaboration with Astellas to design novel miniprotein therapeutics.

Deborah Waterhouse is leaving ViiV Healthcare to become CEO and managing director of CSL.

METiS TechBio enters a collaboration with Eli Lilly to develop next-generation, tissue-specific lipid nanoparticle delivery technologies using METiS’s AI-driven lipid discovery platform.

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, acquires Silence Therapeutics for $1.3 billion, Hansoh Pharma and Roche expand their ADC partnership in a deal worth over $15 billion, and an EMA panel backs Lilly’s Foundayo for obesity and type 2 diabetes in Europe.

Hansoh Pharma enters a collaboration and license agreement with Roche covering a broad portfolio of antibody-drug conjugate programs.