October’s Top Pharma & Biotech Deals

Drug Hunter has sifted through news articles, press releases, financial disclosures, SEC filings, and more to bring you a roundup of 2023’s biggest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the drug discovery world. In part 3 of this 4-part series, we bring you the top-ranked small molecule-focused deals by value. Covering a range of targets and modalities, this article gives Drug Hunter members in-depth background and analysis of the hottest science opening checkbooks in 2023.

Drug Hunter has sifted through news articles, press releases, financial disclosures, SEC filings and more to bring you a roundup of 2023's biggest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the drug discovery world. In this 4-part series we will give you an open-access overview of the M&A landscape, and then for Drug Hunter members in the coming weeks, we will be providing in-depth coverage and analysis of the small molecule-focused (parts 2 & 3) and biologics-based deals (part 4). This premium content includes background on the targets, chemical/biological matter and clinical data driving these deals.

To help you quickly scan the patent literature, we’ve distilled down thousands of new documents into a searchable table of over 200 selected patents focused on key areas in drug discovery, all published in June 2024. This resource is enriched with detailed highlights on selected molecules targeting high-interest areas such as synthetically lethal Polθ inhibitors, SARM1 inhibitors for neurodegenerative indications, and our best guess at the identity of Gilead’s small molecule GLP-1R agonist GS-4571

In this article, we present a curated selection of over 60 molecules from September that caught our attention, along with highlights of our top picks and insights into why they stand out.

Drug Hunter has sifted through news articles, press releases, financial disclosures, SEC filings, and more to bring you a roundup of 2023’s biggest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the drug discovery world. Following our open-access industry overview, in the final installment of this four-part series we bring you the biologics-focused deals opening checkbooks in 2023.