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Posted 14 December 2022 AM
Amgen has closed the biggest biotech deal of 2022 to buy Dublin-based Horizon Therapeutics for AUD$42 billion, a move which could see drugs for rare diseases become available to Australians.
Horizon has no medicines registered on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods. While Amgen did not provide much detail for its plans with Horizon, one of the reasons it gave for the acquisition was that it has a global scale to enhance the growth potential of Horizon's portfolio.
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