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1. Merck plans a sac-TMT combo trial with Keytruda as patent cliff looms
2. Pfizer has already made its biggest deals, Bourla says
3. The China Debate: Biotech deserves a deeper discussion — see you in Boston
4. Post-Hoc Live: Who wants an AstraZeneca-Bristol Myers megadeal?
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If you missed our Post-Hoc Live trying to make sense of a potential AstraZeneca merger with Bristol Myers Squibb, catch the replay here. Jeremy Levin, who once led dealmaking at BMS and ran Teva as CEO, shared his insights.

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Kevin Miller
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Rob Davis, Merck CEO (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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by Max Gelman

Mer­ck pro­vid­ed some of the clear­est di­rec­tion yet re­gard­ing its am­bi­tions in on­col­o­gy to im­prove on its block­buster im­munother­a­py Keytru­da.

The com­pa­ny plans to con­duct...

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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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by Max Bayer

If an­a­lysts and in­vestors think that Pfiz­er has a trick up its sleeve to fur­ther ac­quire its way to growth, CEO Al­bert Bourla as­sured them...

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Endpoints 11 - Reserve Your Spot - Save $100 with our Early Bird rate
One night, one room: the founders, scientists and investors behind the Endpoints 11, together in Boston this September. Reserve your spot now and save with the early bird rate.
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by Drew Armstrong

For the last few months, I've been watch­ing the de­bate about the US-Chi­na biotech ri­val­ry un­fold, and I've been un­sat­is­fied. There are great, smart peo­ple...

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by Drew Armstrong

Is the era of the big phar­ma megamerg­er about to re­turn?

This week­end, the news broke that As­traZeneca and Bris­tol My­ers Squibb were al­leged­ly in...

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by Kyle LaHucik, Elizabeth Cairns

For years, No­vo Nordisk and Eli Lil­ly have dom­i­nat­ed the con­ver­sa­tion sur­round­ing obe­si­ty med­i­cines as the du­op­oly com­petes to lead the largest phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal cat­e­go­ry in...

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by Shelby Livingston

A year ago, the con­cept of an “AI doc­tor” was brand new. Now there are sev­er­al star­tups us­ing ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence to han­dle pa­tient in­take for...

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