Genentech pays $30m up front in a collaboration with Bicycle in a deal that could bring the UK biotech roughly $1.7bn in total. Also, deals involving Nimble, Seattle Genetics, Five Prime, Fresenius, Vifor, Yuhan, Imnewrun, Paratek, Almirall, MBD, AzothBio, Norgine, Faes, Aspen Pharmacare, Swixx.

Ahead of the Global Generics & Biosimilars Awards, which are this year being held on Wednesday 25 October at the Hotel Porta Fira in Barcelona, we reveal our final shortlist of entrants across all 14 categories.

Teva’s commercial interests in North America will soon be under new leadership after the firm announced that Sven Dethlefs would leave the company in mid-November. The firm has looked to the branded sector for his replacement.