Deals Of The Week: Amgen/Watson, Baxter/Momenta, Takeda/Intellikine
• By Chris Morrison, John Davis, Lisa LaMotta, Alex Lash, and Melanie Senior
Biosimilars took center stage during the last two weeks of 2011, as Amgen and Watson and then Baxter and Momenta followed up on the collaboration between Biogen Idec and Samsung BioLogics earlier in the month.
Business development didn’t take much of a holiday during the past fortnight. It was almost the 12 Deals of Christmas, as this installment of Deals of the Week, covering the period from Dec. 19 to Dec. 29, demonstrates.
Amgen Inc. has finally tipped its hand regarding its biosimilar strategy after playing both sides of the issue for...