Merck & Co.
213 E Grand Ave, South San Francisco, CA
33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
320 Bent St, Cambridge, MA
33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
320 Bent St, Cambridge, MA
NEWS
Merck snapped up the company to gain ArQule’s lead investigational candidate, ARQ 531, a novel, oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor currently in a Phase II dose-expansion study for the treatment of B-cell malignancies.
According to PhRMA, there are 264 vaccines in development to prevent and treat diseases. These include infectious diseases (137), cancer (101), allergies (10), autoimmune disease (8) and Alzheimer’s disease (4).
Companies from across the globe provide updates on their businesses and pipelines.
As usual, it was a busy week for clinical trial updates. Here’s a look.
Pharma and biotech companies strengthen their leadership teams and boards with this week’s appointments.
The results of the Phase III VICTORIA trial set up the potential for the companies to seek regulatory approval for vericiguat.
The European Commission approved the world’s first Ebola vaccine. The vaccine is manufactured by Merck and has a trade name of Ervebo.
Merck plunked down $576 million to acquire San Diego-based Calporta to gain access to preclinical TRPML1 agonists that are seen as potential treatments for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
As the third quarter of 2019 comes to an end, most biopharma companies are reporting their earnings as they head into the final lap for the year. Here’s a look at some of the bigger companies’ reports that came out this week.
JOBS
IN THE PRESS