On Monday Takeda Pharmaceutical confirmed to acquire Shire for £45.3 billion ($61.50 billion). The final deal will be 46 percent cash and 54 percent stock.
Takeda has upped its offer to buy Shire $SHPG for a mix of stock and cash worth close to $65 billion, which is good enough for the Lexington, MA-based biotech to extend the deadline on their talks to May 8 after determining they were close to finalizing a pact.
Takeda is considering making a bold move for Shire, after announcing, as per UK regulations, that it may make an approach for the company.
Shire and NanoMedSyn have entered into a preclinical research collaboration to evaluate a potential ERT using NanoMedSyn's proprietary synthetic derivatives named AMFA.
Irish biotechnology firm Shire has received 510(k) marketing clearance for its myPKFiT for ADVATE [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant)] software from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG), the global leader in serving patients with rare diseases, announced today that the European Commission (EC) has approved a label extension granting a new indication for FIRAZYR® (icatibant injection), broadening its use to adolescents and children aged 2 years and older, with hereditary angioedema (HAE) caused by C1-esterase-inhibitor (C1-INH) deficiency. FIRAZYR has been approved in the European Union (EU) since 2008 for symptomatic treatment of acute attacks of HAE in adults with C1-INH deficiency.
Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG), the global biotechnology leader in rare diseases, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded Orphan Drug Designation(ODD) to Shire`s gene therapy candidate SHP654 (also designated as BAX 888), an investigational factor VIII (FVIII) gene therapy for the treatment of hemophilia A. The regulatory agency also granted Shire investigational new drug (IND) status for SHP654.
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