BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of
EntreMed Inc. rallied 23% to $2.89 on Thursday in the wake of news that partner
Celgene Corp. was acquiring fellow cancer-therapy developer Avila Therapeutics for $350 million in cash and up to $575 million in future milestone payments. Avila's lead drug candidate is AVL-292, which belongs to a class of therapeutics known as kinase inhibitors. EntreMed has also been developing cancer treatments based on kinase inhibitors. Celgene is a significant stakeholder in EntreMed, which derives most of its revenue from royalty payments on sales of Celgene's drug Thalomid. Earlier this week, EntreMed announced that it had secured $10 million in strategic financing to help develop its kinase inhibitor drug ENMD-2076. Celgene also released its 2011 earnings report on Thursday, which showed that sales of Thalomid fell 13% to $339 million. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
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