Plus deals involving BiomX/Adapative Phage, One/NEX-I, Shionogi/FunPep, Taiho/Haihe, Kinnate/Pierre Fabre, StemCell Technologies/SQZ and more, as well as tech transfer agreements.

Plus alliances involving Formosa/Cristalia, Renalys/Travere, Astellas/Vivtex, Zydus/Synthon, AFT/Hyloris and Astellas/Mass General Brigham hospital.

Zydus is developing a novel ADC, one of the most challenging but rewarding treatment modalities today as others in the class like Kadcyla and Enhertu prove. The Indian firm's managing director spoke to Scrip about R&D efforts, recent policy moves and gains from making the world’s first approved recombinant plasmid DNA vaccine.

Excellence, innovation, deal-making and personal achievement across the Japanese biopharma sector were celebrated at the Citeline Pharma Intelligence Awards Japan 2023, held in Tokyo on 17 October.