This week, Nipro Medical Corp. announced it will invest $397.8m to build a US-based production plant, generating 232 new jobs; both Baxter and Hamilton announced ventilator recalls; Imperative Care wins FDA clearance for its stroke catheter; Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc entered into a conditional sale and purchase deal to sell its Clinical AI business to GE HealthCare for £40.5m; RMI distributed 350m rapid test kits in the fight against HIV/AIDS; Jiangsu Shenli Medical Production Co., Ltd received a second FDA warning letter about quality and safety of plastic syringes.

Plus deals involving Biosplice/Haisco, SciClone/Tarveda, Everest/Sinovent/SinoMab, Kyowa Kirin/AM-Pharma, Sandoz/Bio-Thera, Dr. Reddy’s/Citius, Jiangsu Hengrui/Mabworks, GeneQuantum/BrightGene, Innovent/GenFleet and Takeda/Mirum.

Takeda's $50m+ deal for Enterome's EB8018 is based on a separate platform from that being used under the French company's collaboration with Johnson & Johnson.

Pipeline Watch is a weekly snapshot of selected late-stage clinical trial events announced by pharmaceutical and biotech companies at medical and industry conferences, in financial and company presentations, and in company releases and statements.