Deal Watch: Endo Elbows In On Valeant’s Pursuit Of Salix
Executive Summary
Bristol options rights to investigational prostate cancer immunotherapy, giving Bavarian Nordic additional funding to develop the candidate. Targacept finally calls it a day, in a reverse merger with Catalyst, while Arrowhead buys out the RNAi assets of Novartis.
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