Gilead pays unprecedented $125m for Knight priority voucher
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Gilead Sciences is paying an unprecedented $125m to acquire Knight Therapeutics' FDA-awarded tropical disease priority review voucher (PRV) – nearly doubling the amount Regeneron and Sanofi put out for a similar PRV earlier this year.
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