
Prometheus reportedly drew a competing AbbVie bid, initial partner interest from 16 pharmas before inking $10.8B Merck buyout
In the week after this year’s JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, Prometheus Biosciences CEO Mark McKenna got a phone call that would change the biotech’s future.
Sunil Patel, Merck’s head of business development and licensing, rang up McKenna on Jan. 19, just a week after McKenna had chatted with execs from Merck, along with five other mid- to large-cap pharma companies at JPM in San Francisco.
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