Ultragenyx sold two priority review vouchers in one week of October 2026, for a combined $413M. On 6 October it agreed to sell the voucher awarded with the approval of Genglycos, its gene therapy for glycogen storage disease type Ia, for $210M in cash. The current report adds that under

Gilead agreed to pay Vir USD 90m upfront, USD 65m in cash and USD 25m in stock, for three masked T-cell engagers, the largest stated licence upfront of the week, and of the 11 royalties created in the window one publishes a rate, five publish a band, and five

On 5 October Immunome filed a Form 8-K that carried no press release. It reported that three days earlier the company had paid Bristol Myers Squibb $20.0M in cash and 4,425,487 new shares. In return Bristol gave up every royalty and milestone it was owed on

Perceptive has lent to at least 38 drug and device companies since 2014 and has raised about $3.5B to do it. One of those loans came with a royalty. It lasted fourteen months. In 2026 royalty and credit funds have refinanced three of Perceptive's borrowers. On 1

CSL is paying $355M for a share in a Swiss antibody for failing kidneys, nearly as much as venture investors put into its maker over seven years. Alentis keeps 45 percent of the profit and no royalty. The contract that defines that profit is unpublished, and so are the licences

On 6 October Rocket Pharmaceuticals announced that Hercules Capital had lent it $35.0M, the first draw on a senior secured facility of up to $150.0M signed on 30 September. The press release said the money, with the cash already in hand, would fund the company into the third

On 28 September 2026 two announcements about crop genetics went out within hours of each other. Cibus, a gene-editing company listed on Nasdaq, said that Crystal Crop Protection of New Delhi would develop gene-edited traits in Brassica juncea, India's mustard, and "evaluate and commercialize such

On 9 February 2023 Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie's chief executive, told analysts to expect "U.S. Humira sales down approximately 37%" that year. Humira had lost its American exclusivity at the end of January, the moment the industry calls a patent cliff, and cheaper copies known as

CSL paid Alentis USD 355m upfront for 45 per cent of global profits on lixudebart, the largest licence payment of the week, and of the 12 royalties and profit shares created in the window two publish a rate, two publish a band and eight publish nothing. Shionogi agreed to pay