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BMS Buys MyoKardia, Plans To Use Eliquis Experience To Grow Mavacamten

Company Sees Opportunity For A Similar Ramp-Up For The Cardiovascular Drug

 
• By Joseph Haas

Paying $13.1bn for MyoKardia and its potential first-in-class HCM drug, BMS sees a blockbuster sales opportunity that it will grow gradually. MyoKardia team will be absorbed into BMS, Caforio says.

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BMS makes its biggest acquisition since last year's merger with Celgene

Roughly a year after closing its mega-acquisition of Celgene Corporation, Bristol Myers Squibb Company dipped into the M&A waters again on 5 October with a $13.1bn buyout of clinical-stage MyoKardia, Inc. based on the commercial prospects of its first-in-class allosteric myosin inhibitor in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

During a same-day investor call, BMS chief commercial officer Christopher Boerner talked up mavacamten’s potential to change the standard of...

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