Roche has announced plans to buy US group Ignyta for $27 a share in an all-cash deal totaling around $1.7 billion, securing itself access to the latter’s experimental cancer medicines.
Roche?has entered an agreement to acquire?Ignyta, Inc., a U.S. based pharmaceutical company focused on developing cancer therapies,?for $1.7 billion. The acquisition expands Roche’s oncology portfolio globally.
Biotechnology firm Ignyta has received orphan drug designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational, orally available, CNS-active tyrosine kinase inhibitor, entrectinib, to treat NTRK fusion-positive solid tumours.