Merck & Co. opened the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference with news that it will acquire the cancer drug developer Harpoon Therapeutics for approximately $680m.
Merck & Co., Inc. kicked off 2024 with acquisition news, revealing on the opening day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that it will acquire the cancer company Harpoon Therapeutics for roughly $680m. The news follows a spate of deal-making by Merck last year to reenergize its pipeline, including a huge $4bn upfront licensing deal with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.
The purchase price of $23 per share represents a 118% increase over Harpoon’s closing price of $10.55 on 5 January....
Interim results from the Phase III REMARK study presented at WCLC showed the Chinese company’s second-generation ALK/ROS1 inhibitor met its primary endpoint as a first-line therapy in ALK-positive advanced NSCLC.
Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
Interim results from the Phase III REMARK study presented at WCLC showed the Chinese company’s second-generation ALK/ROS1 inhibitor met its primary endpoint as a first-line therapy in ALK-positive advanced NSCLC.
The US precision medicine company hopes its drug response predictor technology will enhance responses to the chemotherapy Ixempra on the basis of promising data from a handful of breast cancer patients in a Phase II trial, marking a positive turn in its journey to date.
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Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
Interim results from the Phase III REMARK study presented at WCLC showed the Chinese company’s second-generation ALK/ROS1 inhibitor met its primary endpoint as a first-line therapy in ALK-positive advanced NSCLC.
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