Gilead’s acquisition of CymaBay Therapeutics underscores the company’s historic success in liver diseases and could bring in $1 billion in peak annual sales.
Gilead announced Monday that it will pay cash to buy CymaBay for $4.3 billion, at $32.50 a share.
CymaBay is developing seladelpar as a second-line treatment for primary biliary cholangitis, a rare, chronic and progressive disease. The drug, which showed off positive Phase III results in September, has a PDUFA date in mid-August.
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