Merck Strengthening Vaccine Capabilities By Acquiring Troubled Immune Design
Executive Summary
Recently battered by clinical setbacks, Immune Design has a co-development partnership with Merck around Keytruda and Merck’s Perlmutter is a former board member. Merck would pay roughly $300m to acquire the company and its immune system-boosting technologies.
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