{"id":44135,"date":"2022-08-07T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44135"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:46:58","slug":"pfizer-wants-to-buy-a-new-biotech-company-for-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44135","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer wants to buy a new biotech company for $5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pfizer logo at the drugmaker&#8217;s headquarters in New York .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate . 7. \u00a0August . 2022 | World News  <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US drugmaker Pfizer is close to a deal to buy Global Blood Therapeutics, maker of a recently approved sickle cell disease drug, for $5 billion.\u00a0This is reported by the Wall Street Journal<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pfizer, one of the leading makers of Covid-19 vaccines, hopes to conclude talks with GBT within days, the newspaper said on Friday, citing people close to the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GBT sickle cell therapy, sold under the name &#8220;Oxbryta,&#8221; was approved for children older than 12 in 2019, but won federal approval in December for children ages four to 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, sales of &#8220;Oxbryta&#8221; helped the laboratory achieve a turnover of 55 million US dollars (and increased by 41%), while the net loss of the company amounted to 81.4 million dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its part, Pfizer&#8217;s revenue rose 47 percent to a record $27.74 billion in the second quarter, thanks to sales of its Covid vaccine and pills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Global Blood Therapeutics, based in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pfizer logo at the drugmaker&#8217;s headquarters in New York . KYIV. UkraineGate . 7. \u00a0August . 2022 | World News . US drugmaker Pfizer is close to a deal to buy Global Blood Therapeutics, maker of a recently approved sickle cell disease drug, for $5 billion.\u00a0This is reported by the Wall Street Journal. Details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-44135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44157,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44135\/revisions\/44157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}