DEALS: Ligand sells cancer drugs for $205M

Ligand sells cancer drugs for $205M
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DEALS |
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WHO |
WITH |
WHAT |
SCOOP |
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Ligand Pharmaceuticals |
Eisai |
$205M sale |
Ligand Pharmaceuticals has sold a line of cancer drugs to Eisai. |
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Daiichi Sankyo |
Kearney Venture Partners |
$60M investment |
The deal allows Daiichi to strike collaborations with the biotech companies who gain funds from the venture group. |
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Sankyo |
Ajinomoto |
Licensing deal |
Sankyo has gained the exclusive global rights to develop, manufacture and market the new diabetes drug AJD101. |
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Omeros |
Nura |
Cash/stock buyout |
Omeros' acquisition will add Nura's work in schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. The three investors in Nura are making an unspecified but "large" investment in Omeros. |
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Genzyme |
AnorMed |
Hostile takeover |
Genzyme says it will pursue a hostile takeover of AnorMed with a tender offer of $8.55 per share, a 70 percent premium on the Canadian biotech's trading price. |
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