Public Company Edition: NewAmsterdam grossed $328m in its SPAC merger, while Liminatus may raise up to $316m in a new SPAC deal. Also, Intellia and Iveric grossed $300m each in follow-on offerings, bluebird sold a PRV for $102m and MEI ends zandelisib development resulting in layoffs.

EU member states are calling for a formal approach to making vaccine procurement agreements more flexible, saying that any further delay will “undermine the trust of society in vaccination and vaccines.”

The FDA and Sarepta have had a controversial history with the accelerated approvals of the firm’s earlier drugs for Duchenne muscular dystrophy – but the company’s investigational gene therapy, SRP-9001, now under a priority review, could be a genuine breakthrough.

Shreehas Tambe has been named as CEO of Biocon Biologics, taking over from Arun Chandavarkar, in the wake of the company’s milestone $3bn transaction for Viatris’s biosimilars business.