Ichnos Glenmark Innovation’s president and CEO talks to Scrip about the promising activity profile of the alliance’s early stage trispecific antibody versus Janssen’s teclistamab and also maintains that the setback for Gilead’s magrolimab hasn’t eclipsed prospects for its bispecific antibody.

Collaboration Edition: Including deals involving Evotec/Variant, Sanofi/IGM/Nurix, ABVC/OncoX and Harmony/Bioprojet, along with tech transfer agreements and deals in brief.

ImmunoACT gets go-ahead in India for its CD19-targeted CAR-T cell therapy, which reported low toxicity and the absence of neurotoxicities in clinical trials. The product will come at a huge price differential compared to on-market therapies, offering new hope to several patients.

Deal Snapshot: Pipeline gets $50m up front and a $25m equity investment in exchange for global rights to an M1 receptor antagonist cleared to move into Phase II in relapsing/remitting MS.