JP Morgan Notebook Day One: Pfizer/Allergan, Celgene, Gilead, Teva And More
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Pfizer Inc. chairman and CEO Ian Read and Allergan PLC president and CEO Brent Saunders noted in a Jan. 11 interview with Scrip during the 34th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco that investors' biggest concern about the pending $160bn merger of the two companies do not revolve around whether or not the combined entity will continue early-stage research and development or whether more dealmaking is on the horizon.
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