Astellas UK suspended from Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Emergent will reduce its current workforce by about 300 employees “across all areas of the company” and will eliminate about 85 job openings, the company said Wednesday

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing important new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer, announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with ONO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (ONO), under which ONO will acquire all outstanding shares of Deciphera common stock for $25.60 per share in cash through a tender offer followed by a merger of Deciphera with a wholly-owned subsidiary of ONO (the “Acquisition”), for a total equity value of $2.4 billion