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Talks between Merck and Seagen are heating up as the former looks to buy the latter, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal.
FDA
On Wednesday, the FDA approved Merck’s pneumococcal 15-valent conjugate vaccine for children 6 weeks through 17 years of age.
The week began with positive updates in the vaccine development space against various infectious diseases from Emergent, Merck, Affinivax and Ocugen.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck is exploring a possible purchase of biotech company Seagen, according to The Wall Street Journal.
BMS, TG Therapeutics, Spero and Merck are all preparing for PDUFA dates over the next couple of weeks. Here’s a closer look.
FDA
The House of Representatives voted on a bill that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more power to ensure biopharma companies run large follow-up trials to confirm accelerated approvals.
The new space will enable Astellas to establish a global supply chain of gene therapies as well as widen the scope of the therapeutic products it creates.
Powered by its blockbuster checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda, Merck is forecasting a potential of more than 80 new regulatory approvals in oncology through 2028.
The results demonstrated that Jardiance reduced the risk of hospitalization for heart failure compared to two other classes of glucose-lowering drugs in adults with type 2 diabetes.
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