Otsuka and Lundbeck’s newly approved long-acting antipsychotic Abilify Maintena enters a sub-sector of the anti-psychotic market dominated by Johnson & Johnson for the last decade, but the new competitor may be able to gain ground by helping to grow the patient population.

Big pharma business development executives forecast a competitive and active deal-making year ahead for the industry at the Biocom partnering conference.

Sanofi/Regeneron's PD-1 inhibitor Libtayo joins Keytruda and Tecentriq as the only PD-1/L1s approved by the US FDA as monotherapy for first-line non-small cell lung cancer.