Merck & Co. Joins Competitive BTK Research Space With $2.7bn ArQule Buy
Executive Summary
ArQule's lead candidate, ARQ 531, is a novel BTK inhibitor in Phase II development that could work in patients with B-cell malignancies resistant to existing BTK inhibitors like Imbruvica.
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