Commercial Capsules: Pfizer's Tax Reform M&A Pause; PARP Deals; PD-1 Sales; Antimicrobial Financing
Executive Summary
Pfizer's CEO says uncertainty over US tax reform was staying his hand in M&A; following AstraZeneca's MYSTIC miss, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck & Co. were duly grilled over their own PD-1/CTLA-4 combination programs; recent deals highlight gathering enthusiasm for combining PARP and PD-1/PD-L1 inhibition. Commercial Capsules rounds up key commercial news reported recently by sister publication Scrip.