
Merck & Co. Breaks Ground on $1 Billion Biologics Center in US
Merck Wilmington Biotech will serve as a launch and commercial production facility and the future US home for Keytruda.
Merck Wilmington Biotech will serve as a launch and commercial production facility and the future US home for Keytruda.
Major US drugmaker MSD is to pay up to $1.3 billion to acquire CN201, a novel investigational clinical-stage bispecific antibody for the treatment of B-cell associated diseases, from biotechnology company Curon Biopharmaceutical.
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo and US drugmaker MSD have expanded their existing global co-development and co-commercialization agreement for three investigational DXd antibody drug conjugates to include MSD’s MK-6070, a compound MSD obtained through its recent acquisition of Harpoon Therapeutics.
US drugmaker Merck & Co. (MSD) has agreed to acquire privately held ophthalmology-focused biotechnology company Eyebiotech (EyeBio).
US Merck & Co., known as MSD outside of North America, intends to buy cancer drug developer Harpoon Therapeutics for $23.00 per share in cash for an approximate equity value of $680 million.
In Ireland, US drugmaker MSD has opened its new facility in Dunboyne, County Meath, and has expanded its Carlow site. MSD says it has invested more than €1 billion at both sites, creating 670 new jobs and increasing the number of employees in Ireland to 3,100. 100 of the newly created positions remain to be filled.
UK-based Astex Pharmaceuticals, specialized in the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics for oncology and diseases of the central nervous system, announced an exclusive worldwide research collaboration and license agreement with US drugmaker MSD (in the US, the company trades as Merck & Co).
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