The Danish group has cut 300 jobs to shift to an external innovation sourcing model that will make Leo more competitive in the dermatology space and help it break even this year, CEO Christophe Bourdon tells Scrip.

Shanghai’s biopharma sector has started to regain momentum and is beginning to see its innovation bets paying off, with support from the local government.

Private Company Edition: The amount of venture capital investment in biopharma companies has shrunk from quarter to quarter, but the average deal size remained high until the third quarter. Larger rounds from Treeline, Odyssey and Neumora offset a plethora of smaller VC financings early in Q4. 

Private Company Edition: Acelyrin will use its latest funding for Phase III development of izokibep in inflammatory diseases. Also, ArsenalBio raised $220m to take its programmable cell therapies into the clinic and RayzeBio’s $160m series D round will fund clinical trials for its radiopharmaceuticals.