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Deal Watch: ICON, PRA Health Form Massive CRO In $12bn Merger

 
• By Joseph Haas

Plus deals involving Sanofi/SIRION, Merck KGAA/Day One, Beijing Tide/Graviton, Vaccinex/Surface Oncology, Athena/Tris, Biomunex/Onward, Cellectis/Cytovia

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Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Biomedtracker.

On the same day that it announced its fourth quarter and full year 2020 financials, contract research organization ICON...

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