Oncology Deal-Making The Daiichi Way

$13bn Deal Value In 18 Months

Daiichi Sankyo’s relatively young strategic pivot into oncology is paying major dividends, with two huge global deals with AstraZeneca now in the bag within 18 months. Scrip takes a closer look with the help of insights from the Japanese firm’s global oncology R&D head.

Monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE, vedotin), the cytotoxic payload of brentuximab vedotin antibody-drug conjugate. Atoms are represented as spheres with conventional color coding: hydrogen (white), etc
ADC Focus For Daiichi As It Pursues Oncology Goals • Source: Shutterstock

Go back a few years and Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. was very heavily reliant commercially on its cardiovascular franchise, mostly the antihypertensive olmesartan (sold as Olmetec and others) and the anticoagulant edoxaban (Savaysa and others).

While these two products still took the top two sales spots globally for the company last fiscal year, olmesartan is...

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