Only four months after it was carved out from Sanofi to become an independent company, Prague-based Zentiva has announced fresh leadership in the form of Nick Haggar, the 30-year industry veteran and former president of Medicines of Europe.

With an eye on moving to market its broad pipeline of innovative brands, Pfizer has cut development of five early-stage biosimilar assets, in a decision that will affect 150 staff. The move is not reflective of Pfizer's overall commitment to biosimilars, the US-based company maintains.

A strengthened cash position has provided Amneal the chance to seek inorganic opportunities to bolster its growing presence in injectables. The US-based, US-centric company is looking to grow its operations, having been surprised in recent weeks by generic competition to its most lucrative generic assets.

Just days after it began selling the second biosimilar pegfilgrastim product in the US, and the company’s first, Coherus BioSciences’ management took to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to explain how the company is set apart from rival Mylan. Through debt financing, the California-based player has also just grabbed a further US$75 million to fuel the biosimilar’s launch.

Under plans announced last December, Mallinckrodt is to spin off its specialty generics and API business; at the recent Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, management painted a timeline to completing the project and provided details on the business’ financing and growth prospects.

A month after a court ruled that Fresenius Kabi’s decision to terminate its merger with Akorn was legal and proper, Akorn’s COO has agreed to resign the position, six days after Doug Boothe officially replaced Raj Rai as Akorn’s new president and CEO.