STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow STAT+: Roche inks drug discovery deal with Chinese biotech, focused on molecular glue medicines Roche has inked a drug discovery deal with Chinese biotech Defand Therapeutics, focused on molecular glue medicines. https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/roche-defand-therapeutics-drug-development-deal/ statnews.com