Merck to buy rights to Chinese cancer drug

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and LaNova Medicines Ltd. (LaNova), a privately held ...
Merck (MRK) and LaNova Medicines, a privately held clinical-stage biotechnology company, announced that Merck has entered into an exclusive ...
The company is paying China-based biotech LaNova Medicines $588 million for the same type of bispecific antibody drug that ...
Merck is playing defense against Summit Therapeutics with a $3.3 billion licensing deal announced Thursday for a cancer drug.