July 27, 2008 9:44 PM
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Pharma/Biotech Deal Pipeline, 7/21-25/08
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A quick recap of major deals in the week that was, with a big hat tip to the In Vivo Blog:
A quick recap of major deals in the week that was, with a big hat tip to the In Vivo Blog:- Obviously, the big kahuna of the week was Roche's $43.7 billion bid for Genentech. But Roche wasn't close to finished: The Swiss drugmaker also paid C$191 million ($189.3 million) for the Canadian biotech Arius Research, a developer of antibody-screening systems, and $125 million for Mirus Bio, a Wisconsin biotech with a proprietary RNA-interference technology. The Mirus deal also marks Roche's second foray into RNAi in the past year.
- Sanofi-Aventis offered ?£276 million ($548.4 million) to acquire vaccine-maker Acambis, with whom Sanofi has been working for roughly a decade.
- BioMarin Pharmaceutical agreed to pay $7 million upfront and up to $136 million in possible milestone and royalty payments to Summit for a drug intended to fight muscular dystrophy.
- GlaxoSmithKline struck a deal with South Africa's Aspen to break into the generic-drug market across the developing world.
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David Hamilton is the assistant managing editor of CNET News. He has been writing and editing business and tech coverage for about two decades -- the majority of that at the Wall Street Journal in both Tokyo and San Francisco.
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