Roche has made a second acquisition in the area of NLRP3 inhibitors for inflammatory diseases, buying Irish biotech Inflazome a couple of years after snapping up Jecure Therapeutics of the US for an undisclosed sum. The Swiss pharma giant is paying €380 million (around $450 million) upfront for Dublin-based Inflazome, getting rights to a portfolio of oral NLRP3-targeting drugs including two candidates at the clinical testing stage, and has also pledged undisclosed milestone payments. Soucre: Pharmaphorum 22/09/2020