Halozyme rockets 30% on potential $515M deal with Pfizer
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Shares of Halozyme Therapeutics soared 30% on 21 December after it revealed it had inked a worldwide deal with Pfizer to develop and commercialize subcutaneous biologics using recombinant human hyaluronidase.
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