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Mergers & Acquisitions

Astellas to buy eye drug developer Iveric for $5.9 billion

by Gina Vitale
May 7, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 15

 

Japan’s Astellas Pharma has agreed to buy Iveric Bio, a developer of treatments for retinal diseases, for about $5.9 billion. Iveric’s lead product is avacincaptad pegol, a protein inhibitor that may slow the progression of geographic atrophy, an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration. The US Food and Drug Administration accepted Iveric’s new drug application for the molecule in February, and Astellas expects a decision on it by Aug. 19.

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