Merck buys Peloton to expand its kidney cancer treatment portfolio

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U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co Inc on Tuesday agreed to buy Peloton Therapeutics Inc ...

- U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co Inc on Tuesday agreed to buy Peloton Therapeutics Inc for $1.05 billion in cash, gaining access to the privately held company’s lead kidney cancer drug candidate.

Merck’s blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda was approved last month in the United States for treating renal cell cancer. In an older mid-stage trial testing patients whose cancer had spread even after treatment with at least one therapy, 24% of patients treated with Peloton’s drug showed an at least 30% shrinkage of targeted lesions.

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