Amgen buying Onyx for $10.4 billion to be bigger player in cancer therapies
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Amgen said it will buy Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $10.4 billion in cash, or $125 a share, in a deal that significantly builds the big biotech company’s cancer drug program.
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