Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AUPH), a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering therapies to people living with autoimmune diseases with high unmet medical needs, announced today it has entered into a definitive merger agreement (the “Merger Agreement”) to acquire Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: KZR), a biotechnology company focusing on small-molecule therapeutics to treat unmet needs in autoimmunity and cancer, for $6.955 in cash per share of Kezar common stock, plus one non-t

Luxna Biotech Co., Ltd. and KH Neochem Co., Ltd.today announced the launch of a joint research initiative aimed at advancing next-generation drug discovery through the development of improved delivery technologies for nucleic acid therapeutics. Nucleic acid therapeutics are emerging as a promising modality for treating cancer and other challenging diseases. Unlike conventional small-molecule drugs and antibody therapeutics, they enable access to previously undruggable targets. However, instabi

Simulations Plus has announced strategic partnership programmes with three pharmaceutical businesses to advance AI-enabled modelling in drug development. The partnerships aim to apply AI within scientifically validated modelling workflows and define scalable, next-generation approaches throughout the drug development life cycle. The programmes will use Simulations Plus software platforms, including ADMET Predictor, GastroPlus, Thales, and MonolixSuite. By working closely with these pharmaceut

– Expands Otsuka portfolio in psychiatric and neurological fields and aims to accelerate development of Transcend's portfolio, including the TSND-201 program for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – March 27, 2026 -- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka) and Transcend Therapeutics, Inc. (Transcend) announce that the two companies entered into an agreement today, under which Otsuka, through its wholly owned subsidiary Otsuka America, Inc., will fully acquire Transcend. The acquisition is e

March 26, 2026 -- Insilico Medicine ("Insilico", 3696.HK), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven biotechnology company, and Tenacia Biotechnology (Hong Kong) Co., Limited ("Tenacia"), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative therapeutics for patients with underserved neurological disorders, today announced that, building on the productive collaboration over the past year, the two parties will further expand and deepen AI-driven R&D

Partnership brings reliable access to a critical cancer therapy isotope to one of the world's largest and fastest-growing oncology markets March 26, 2026 -- SHINE Technologies, LLC today announced a supply agreement with C-Ray Therapeutics (Chengdu, China), a global radiopharmaceutical CRDMO, establishing C-Ray as SHINE's exclusive distribution partner for non-carrier-added lutetium-177 (n.c.a. Lu-177) across mainland China, excluding certain pre-existing SHINE partnerships. Under the agreemen

March 24, 2026 -- Quotient Therapeutics, a company pioneering somatic genomics to inform breakthrough medicines, today announced that it has entered a multi-year research collaboration agreement with Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, to discover novel drug targets in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using Quotient’s somatic genomics platform technology. Somatic genetic mutations naturally accumulate over a lifetime, resulting in trillions of different genomes within an individual.

The new alliance has launched a multi-agent AI framework to support faster, data-driven decisions in cancer research. Agentic AI system achieves 15x faster insights with over 90% accuracy. March 19, 2026--Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company that helps organizations thrive in a digital and AI-powered future, and PharmaMar, world leader in the discovery, development and commercialization of marine-derived anti-cancer drugs, today announced a new collaboration designed to speed up can

March 17, 2026 -- Apertura Gene Therapy, a biotechnology company developing next-generation AAV capsids for delivering genetic medicines, and Viralgen, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) gene therapies, today announced a strategic manufacturing collaboration to support gene therapy programs using Apertura's TfR1 CapX, a novel AAV capsid that targets human Transferrin Receptor 1 (hTfR1) to cross the blood-

Sentynl will acquire full rights to the investigational drug candidate, Progerinin (SLC-D011), adding to its commercial portfolio of rare and ultra-rare disease products March 16, 2026-- Sentynl Therapeutics Inc. (" Sentynl"), a U.S.-based biopharmaceutical company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Zydus Lifesciences Limited (" Zydus"), announced that it is entering into an agreement with PRG S&T, a Korean company specializing in the development of medicine for rare genetic diseases, to license it