Roni Mamluk, Ayala Pharmaceuticals CEO

Two pub­lic biotechs seek to merge, fo­cus­ing on desmoid tu­mors. But Nas­daq is not guar­an­teed

Two biotechs are look­ing to merge ear­ly next year, and as ne­go­ti­a­tions are on­go­ing, in­vestors still need to sign off on the deal.

On­col­o­gy-fo­cused Ad­vax­is is in the ear­ly stages of merg­ing with Ay­ala, a biotech in­cor­po­rat­ed in Delaware that has its pri­ma­ry op­er­a­tions lo­cat­ed in Is­rael.

Ad­vax­is CEO Ken Berlin told in­vestors and an­a­lysts in a con­fer­ence call Wednes­day morn­ing that he had re­viewed “a num­ber of busi­ness de­vel­op­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties to de­ter­mine how best to ad­vance Ad­vax­is to a lat­er stage com­pa­ny,” adding that the biotech be­lieves the merg­er with Ay­ala is the best way to go about it.

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