Ligand Pharmaceuticals formed drug development partnerships with Amgen, Merck KGaA, and Pfizer.

The entities involved

• Ligand Pharmaceuticals →

  biopharmaceutical company based out of La Jolla, California

  • Ligand Pharmaceuticals committed funding and royalty rights to AvenCell Therapeutics, Inc.Sun 17:54
• Amgen →

  American multinational biopharmaceutical company

  • Amgen, City of Hope, and the California Community Foundation are involved in a life sciences and bioscience economic summit held in Downtown Los Angeles.Mon 12:08
  • Geode Capital Management increased its stake in Amgen stock and filed the disclosure with the SEC.Mon 02:05
• Merck KGaA →

  German multinational science and technology company

  • MSD, which operates as Merck & Co. in the US and Canada, has appointed Vidhya as Associate Vice President.Mon 12:02
  • Merck KGaA filed required 13F reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding institutional holdings on June 15, 2026.Mon 02:05
• Pfizer →

  American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation

  • Dave Long trained at Fort Knox after graduating from Boardman High School and later worked for Pfizer.Mon 05:00
  • MarketBeat's screener has identified a list of dividend stocks.Sun 22:22

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• Pfizer, Merck, and Amgen are large-cap drugmakers with significant operations in the United States.Aug 19
• Amgen acquired Horizon Therapeutics, a company whose portfolio included a drug discovered by AstraZeneca.Tue 21:48
• Major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Merck, announced several new partnerships and acquisitions in the oncology sector.Jun 8
• GSK and Amgen are major biopharma players.Sep 8
• Joint drug trial success boosts Amgen stock.Sep 9