
Merck KGaA beefs up its mRNA work with a $780M buyout of a booming player
Bursting at the seams and executing plans for swift expansion to support its manufacturing work for the mRNA vaccine out of Pfizer/BioNTech, Indianapolis-based Exelead has now been scooped up in a $780 million cash buyout deal.
Germany’s Merck KGaA, which bought out another mRNA manufacturer, AmpTec, early last year, has been beefing up its ops around lipids, which, in mRNA vaccines, play a key role in turning human cells into a mini vaccine factories.
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