News in Numbers
$875 mil
CooperCompanies terminated its $875 million takeover of Cook Medical’s reproductive health business due to regulatory opposition. The FTC said ending the planned takeover “ensures that critical reproductive health markets remain competitive.”
47%
Life Sciences Foreign Direct Investment in the UK fell to €1 billion in 2022, a 47% drop compared to €1.9 billion in 2021, as per a government report.
71%
A new World Health Organization (WHO) report highlights that 5.6 billion people – 71% of the world’s population – are now protected with at least one best practice policy to help save lives from deadly tobacco – five times more than in 2007.
110,000
The CDC reported that between 2010 and 2022, there were more than 110,000 suspected cases of alpha-gal syndrome identified. Alpha-gal is a sugar found in meat from mammals which can cause a serious allergic condition.
$200 mil
Reed Jobs, the son of Steve Jobs, is launching a $200 million, oncology-focused venture firm called Yosemite. The San Francisco-based VC will invest in early-stage companies and provide philanthropic grants to academic researchers.
