{"id":32188,"date":"2025-09-23T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/32188\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:32:12","slug":"pfizer-amps-up-push-into-obesity-treatments-with-4-9b-deal-for-metsera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/32188\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer amps up push into obesity treatments with $4.9B deal for Metsera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Pfizer is doubling down on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pfizer-discontinues-potential-obesity-pill-ab583f34c251be43f589d762dadff821\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obesity treatments<\/a> by spending $4.9 billion on the development-stage drugmaker Metsera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The COVID-19 vaccine and treatment maker said early Monday that it will pay $47.50 per share in cash for each Metsera share. That represents a premium of more than 42% to Metsera\u2019s closing price Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pfizer also could pay an additional $22.50 per share depending on how Metsera\u2019s product pipeline develops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Metsera has no products on the market, but its pipeline includes four programs in clinical development and one in mid-stage testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-medicare-coverage-wegovy-zepbound-54bf291135fa9efec7d0ad9672c850a1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demand for obesity treatments<\/a> has soared in recent years, fueled by market leaders Zepbound from Eli Lilly and Wegovy from Novo Nordisk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pfizer currently has no obesity treatments on the market but has some in clinical development. Earlier this year, the company said it was ending development of a potential once-daily pill treatment before it started late-stage testing, the biggest and most expensive phase of clinical development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Shares of Pfizer Inc., based in New York, climbed 31 cents to $24.33 before markets opened Monday while Metsera&#8217;s stock advanced about 60%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pfizer is doubling down on obesity treatments by spending $4.9 billion on the development-stage drugmaker Metsera. The COVID-19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27187,127,114,1128,122,163,17586,521,85,12596,46,482,3477,917],"class_list":["post-32188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-27187","tag-article","tag-business","tag-coronavirus","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-health-care-costs","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-immunizations","tag-israel","tag-medication","tag-obesity","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}