Plus deals involving Astellas/Menarini, Maruho/Fortress Biotech, Zenas/Bristol Myers Squibb, Huadong Medicine/MC2 and more.

Evopoint and Kaken also ring in the new year with multiple deals. Biocytogen licenses antibodies against a specified target derived from its RenMice platform technology to Hansoh Pharma.

Alvotech has swiftly advanced in Japan and Canada, as part of its mission to introduce its pipeline of biosimilars across the globe.

Japan's national health insurance scheme will reimburse infertility treatments from April 2022, in a bid to make the treatments more accessible to patients by effectively lowering the cost by 70%. The key strategic aim is to raise a low birth rate and the move is also set to substantially expand the market for such products for both domestic and foreign players.