{"id":396344,"date":"2026-01-09T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:01:13","slug":"merck-in-talks-to-buy-biotech-revolution-medicines-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396344\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck in talks to buy biotech Revolution Medicines, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Merck is in talks to \u200bbuy cancer drug developer \u200cRevolution Medicines, the Financial Times \u200creported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Shares of Revolution were \u2060up 5.2% \u200cin afternoon trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Merck has been pursuing an \u200dacquisition of Revolution Medicines, however, a deal has not been \u200bfinalised, the report \u200csaid, adding a tie-up would be at least several weeks away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Other large pharmaceutical groups were still circling \u2060the biotech and \u200banother suitor \u200bmight yet prevail, the FT report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Merck and \u200dRevolution \u2060Medicines did not immediately respond to Reuters&#8217; requests \u2060for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Puyaan Singh \u200cin Bengaluru; Editing by \u200cShilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Merck is in talks to \u200bbuy cancer drug developer \u200cRevolution Medicines, the Financial Times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,34110,138363,191616,10249],"class_list":["post-396344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-medicines","tag-merck","tag-pharmaceutical-groups","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}