With only weeks to go in 2022, the three major pharmas each had inked between 16 and 20 deals. Meanwhile, Pfizer has been less busy with 12 deals, but those include M&A totaling $18.2bn.

Chinese biotechs listed in the US have a watershed day, with many shares nosediving by over 10% amid leadership changes in China, where the retirement of several economic pragmatists appears to be adding to souring investment sentiment amid views on rising uncertainties and risks.

Deal Snapshot: Other major players have made headway in bispecifics for prostate cancer, while Jemincare’s drug is the latest China-developed technology to head westward.

News and views from day 3 of the BIO annual meeting include business development insights, such as Sanofi's global head of BD Alban De La Sabliere's promise that big pharma has no hidden agenda and an AbbVie BD exec's observations that lower company valuations have not led to lower asking prices. Also, BIO chairman and Nkarta CEO Paul Hastings' optimism that biotech will rebound and Venus Williams' Sjogren's disease story draws a crowd.