Merck's Biosims Business: What's For Sale And Who Will Buy It?
Executive Summary
Merck KGaA is getting out of biosimilars – a unit that CEO Stefan Oschmann called the company's now redundant back up plan – to instead focus on its growing oncology pipeline, which includes recently acquired pipeline candidates from Vertex Pharma.
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