It’s start­ing to feel like Te­va $TE­VA can’t catch a break. Af­ter an in­cred­i­bly rough se­ries of events that led to mas­sive lay­offs, re­struc­tur­ing, and po­lit­i­cal up­heaval, now Te­va has qui­et­ly sig­naled to in­vestors that the launch of its CGRP mi­graine med could be de­layed.

Te­va’s stock has tum­bled near­ly 10% in pre-mar­ket trad­ing on the news.

Te­va’s drug, called fre­manezum­ab (TEV-48125), came up with some im­pres­sive Phase III da­ta last fall, with 41% of pa­tients on their CGRP drug see­ing their mi­graine days cut in half, com­pared to 18% on the place­bo. The dou­ble blast of da­ta un­der­scores the late-stage race to reg­u­la­tors as some big and small play­ers an­gle for a slice of the new CGRP mi­graine mar­ket.

But now, fre­manezum­ab may hit a stum­bling block. Te­va’s part­ner Cell­tri­on, which man­u­fac­tures an ac­tive in­gre­di­ent in fre­manezum­ab, re­ceived a warn­ing let­ter from the FDA rais­ing is­sues over a man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ty in In­cheon, South Ko­rea.

The slow­down couldn’t come at a worse time for the com­pa­ny, as ri­vals Am­gen $AMGN and its part­ner No­var­tis $NVS were al­ready in the lead to com­mer­cial­ize their own CGRP mi­graine drug, Aimovig. The FDA has al­ready ac­cept­ed Am­gen’s ap­pli­ca­tion for Aimovig — hand­ing the com­pa­ny a PDU­FA date of May 17.

The CGRP field is grow­ing hot, with a line­up of de­vel­op­ers po­si­tion­ing their own late-stage prod­ucts for the last leg of the race.

Ear­li­er this year, Eli Lil­ly $LLY cel­e­brat­ed its Phase III re­sults for gal­canezum­ab, with a con­sis­tent 2-day re­duc­tion in month­ly mi­graines. And Al­ler­gan $AGN has a late-stage pro­gram un­der­way for an oral CGRP ther­a­py it in-li­censed from Mer­ck in 2015 with a $250 mil­lion up­front. Lit­tle Alder $AL­DR is plan­ning to join the com­mer­cial fight with their drug, as well. Then there’s Bio­haven $BHVN, which re­cent­ly in-li­censed a sim­i­lar drug from Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb and scored a very suc­cess­ful IPO ear­li­er this year.

Te­va not­ed the warn­ing let­ter on a slide for in­vestors, and said the com­pa­ny was “in ac­tive di­a­logue with the FDA in an ef­fort to main­tain our pri­or­i­ty date for the ap­proval.”

Typ­i­cal­ly takes 16-18 months to re­solve an FDA warn­ing let­ter, $TE­VA says. Com­pa­ny planned to have two API sup­pli­ers but the sec­ond sup­pli­er isn’t ready yet, Schultz says

— Em­ma Court (@em­mar­court) Feb­ru­ary 8, 2018

CEO Schultz says $TE­VA is hop­ing to work with FDA on franezum­ab CGRP ap­pli­ca­tion be­cause Cell­tri­on warn­ing let­ter was for fin­ished prod­ucts, not API. A sec­ond API sup­pli­er is in the works but not ready to go. Good news for ri­val $NVS

— Jes­si­ca Mer­rill (@Jes­si­cae­mer­rill) Feb­ru­ary 8, 2018

Ireland has been on a roll in 2022, with several large pharma companies announcing multimillion-euro projects. Now AstraZeneca’s rare disease outfit Alexion is looking to get in on the action.

Alexion on Friday announced a €65 million ($68.8 million) investment in new and enhanced capabilities across two sites in the country, including at College Park in the Dublin suburb of Blanchardstown and the Monksland Industrial Park in the central Irish town of Athlone, according to the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland.

Some Celgene shareholders aren’t happy with how Bristol Myers Squibb’s takeover went down.

On Friday, a New York federal judge ruled that they have a case against the pharma giant, denying a request to dismiss allegations that it purposely slow-rolled Breyanzi’s approval to avoid paying out $6.4 billion in contingent value rights (CVR).

When Bristol Myers put down $74 billion to scoop up Celgene back in 2019, liso-cel — the CAR-T lymphoma treatment now marketed as Breyanzi — was supposedly one of the centerpieces of the deal. After going back and forth on negotiations for about six months, BMS put $6.4 billion into a CVR agreement that required an FDA approval for Zeposia, Breyanzi and Abecma, each by an established date.

In a bid to increase its market share in China, Amgen has agreed to a partnership with a Shanghai biotech — a collaboration and out-licensing agreement for two of its drugs.

Amgen and Fosun Pharma announced a deal Monday in a bid to increase Amgen’s presence in the country. The stated goal so far is to commercialize Amgen’s blockbuster psoriasis drug Otezla alongside Parsabiv, a drug for secondary hyperparathyroidism in adults with chronic kidney disease and on a specific type of dialysis.

As Bristol Myers Squibb braces for a court battle over a costly delay — at least for Celgene shareholders — for its CAR-T lymphoma treatment Breyanzi, the pharma giant is touting a label expansion in the second-line setting.

Breyanzi, also known as liso-cel, snagged a win on Friday in adults with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) who: don’t respond to chemotherapy, or relapse within 12 months; don’t respond or relapse after 12 months; or are not eligible for hematopoietic stem cell transplant after chemo due to their age or comorbidities.

Another biotech standing on shaky financial legs has fallen victim to the bears.

Merck partner 4D Pharma has reported that a key lender, Oxford Finance, shoved the UK company into administration after calling in a $14 million loan they couldn’t immediately make good on. Trading in their stock was halted with a market cap that had fallen to a mere £30 million.

“Despite the very difficult prevailing market conditions,” 4D reported on Friday, the biotech had been making progress on finding some new financing and turned to Oxford with an alternative late on Thursday and then again Friday morning.

Amidst recently broader vaccine manufacturing initiatives from the EU and European companies, the G7 summit in the mountains of Bavaria has brought about some positive news for closing vaccine and medical product manufacturing gaps around the globe.

According to a statement from the White House, the G7 leaders have formally launched the partnership for global infrastructure, PGII. The effort will aim to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars to deliver infrastructure projects in several sectors including the medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing space.