While Abbvie and Pharmacyclics work out their $21bn nuptial party arrangements, there has also been some positive news over here on the UK biotech scene. British biotech company Heptares, has been bought by Japan’s Sosei in a deal worth around £250m. Which if you had not just read the $21bn number would seem like a result. This for just two COPD products, but then it has been ‘just’ hard slog since the 1990s to get to this place. Astra Zeneca signed a three year deal w
