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Gilead Doesn’t See Big M&A In Near-Term, But Eyes Next-Gen Cell Therapies

 
• By Alaric DeArment

CEO Daniel O’Day highlighted Gilead’s large pipeline and relative safety from patent expirations over the next few years in the company’s Q1 earnings call.

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is looking to expand its CAR-T cell therapy offerings beyond currently approved CD19-directed products and an investigational anti-BCMA candidate to include off-the-shelf options and CAR-Ts for autoimmune diseases. But despite kicking off the year with a multibillion-dollar liver disease play with the acquisition of CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., the company does not see further major acquisitions happening anytime soon.

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