Tuesday, December 19, 2006

GSK get stuck into the Christmas shopping

GSK is stepping up its acquisitions of experimental new drugs in a bid to bolster a pipeline which, although large, has so far failed to inspire investors.

In the past two weeks, Europe's biggest drugmaker has struck three deals potentially worth nearly $4 billion in total, including Tuesday's record-breaking collaboration with Danish firm Genmab for a new leukaemia and arthritis drug.

That deal could earn Genmab as much as $2.1 billion, plus royalties on future sales of HuMax-CD20 that analysts expect to average 20 percent.

More at Reuters

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