Investors love an opportunity to invest in a recovery play after the disclosure of bad news but, having lived in recent years under a succession of clouds, will generic drug companies begin to see biosimilars resurrect their sales growth?

Belgian mRNA technologies firm Etherna, which is backed by high profile investors including former Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers and Moderna co-founder Kenneth Chien, has reoriented its business model. Interim CEO Bernard Sagaert tells In Vivo how the firm hopes to deliver superior products for partners in the rapidly expanding RNA space.

Pfizer’s $43bn agreement to acquire Seagen would layer its portfolio and pipeline with vastly complex antibody-drug conjugates – a class of drug that execs feel might be almost immune to biosimilar competition. Generic firms’ history of frustration with ADCs suggests they may be right.

The UK is the first country to allow OTC access to Sanofi's tadalafil-based erectile dysfunction drug Cialis following a successful switch. Approved as a pharmacy medicine, Sanofi will launch Cialis Together in the second half of the year. Cialis will compete against Viatris' sildenafil-based Viagra Connect in the men's sexual health and wellness category, which has seen a proliferation of products in recent months.