Coherus BioSciences has sold a little under 2.5 million shares to partner Junshi Biosciences, giving the firm additional capital following a large debt financing last year.

The Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act and the Ensuring Innovation Act will be looked at by the US President Joe Biden, after receiving the approval of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The bills are aimed at lowering prescription drug costs and saving overall healthcare costs. 

Lotus Pharmaceuticals aims to build a stronghold in Thailand and beyond, after the Alvogen subsidiary announced a partnership with a subsidiary of Thai state-owned conglomerate PTT, which includes a $50m capital injection.

Amgen has hit back at Sandoz’ petition for a writ of certiorari against a US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision that leaves the biosimilar sponsor unable to market its Enbrel biosimilar more than three decades after the biologic was first launched.

Action is needed from both the UK government and the European Commission to prevent a collapse of Northern Ireland’s generics market, according to the BGMA.

Canada’s PlantForm has struck a deal with Brazil’s Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz to develop a biosimilar pembrolizumab rival to Merck’s Keytruda for the Brazilian market and potentially beyond.