Seragon Pharmaceuticals Announces Acquisition Agreement With Genentech

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Genentech (RHHBY) to Acquire Seragon Pharma in ~$1.73B Deal

July 2, 2014 8:00 AM EDT

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (OTCBB: RHHBY), announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Seragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Seragon), a privately held biotechnology company based in San Diego, California. With this acquisition, Genentech obtains rights to Seragons entire portfolio of investigational next-generation oral selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) for the potential treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

This year, breast cancer will claim the lives of nearly 40,000 women in the United States, and up to half of these women will have a disease that is driven by the estrogen... More