
Does AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot really want to merge with Gilead? A Bloomberg story suggests he was interested — but it's hard to see why
Pascal Soriot has evidently been thinking big.
Completely out of left field, Bloomberg today posted a story early Sunday saying that AstraZeneca execs have approached Gilead to see if the big biotech would be interested in joining up in a historic biopharma merger. No numbers have been mentioned yet, and no decisions have been made. Right now, according to the business news service, it’s time to check everyone’s temperature.
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