Only four months after it was carved out from Sanofi to become an independent company, Prague-based Zentiva has announced fresh leadership in the form of Nick Haggar, the 30-year industry veteran and former president of Medicines of Europe.

With an eye on moving to market its broad pipeline of innovative brands, Pfizer has cut development of five early-stage biosimilar assets, in a decision that will affect 150 staff. The move is not reflective of Pfizer's overall commitment to biosimilars, the US-based company maintains.

A strengthened cash position has provided Amneal the chance to seek inorganic opportunities to bolster its growing presence in injectables. The US-based, US-centric company is looking to grow its operations, having been surprised in recent weeks by generic competition to its most lucrative generic assets.

Teva has finalized a US$135 million payment to the US state of Illinois, the result of a protracted lawsuit alleging the Israeli firm caused Medicaid to overpay for prescription drugs due to inflated average wholesale prices.

Just days after it began selling the second biosimilar pegfilgrastim product in the US, and the company’s first, Coherus BioSciences’ management took to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to explain how the company is set apart from rival Mylan. Through debt financing, the California-based player has also just grabbed a further US$75 million to fuel the biosimilar’s launch.

Under plans announced last December, Mallinckrodt is to spin off its specialty generics and API business; at the recent Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, management painted a timeline to completing the project and provided details on the business’ financing and growth prospects.