Tag: oncology

July 27, 2017 Off

Merck, AstraZeneca in a $8.5 billion oncology deal

By Dino Mustafić

AstraZeneca and Merck on Thursday said that they have made a deal to co-develop and co-commercialise AstraZeneca’s oncology product Lynparza (olaparib) for multiple cancer types. Lynparza is an oral poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor currently approved for BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer in multiple lines of treatment.