After acquiring a majority stake in ProteoVant last year, South Korea's SK Biopharm is continuing to hunt for new modalities and is now moving into the hot radiotherapeutics area through a deal with Full-Life Technologies.

Following a pair of $10bn+ deals in Q4 2023 and a $16.5bn takeout in Q1, the second quarter saw no acquisition priced as high as $5bn, Evaluate notes. Aggregate deal volume and values dropped from Q1.

Deal Snapshot: Pfizer will collaborate with the Flagship Pioneering-backed startup under a broader long-term partnership between the big pharma and venture capital firm.

Asahi Kasei established a US presence and expertise in renal disease when it bought Veloxis in 2020 and will expand in both areas with Calliditas’s Tarpeyo for immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN).