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Company swoops on US$9B prize
Posted 18 November 2025 AM
MSD is buying Cidara Therapeutics and its preventive antiviral biologic for influenza in a deal worth US$9.2 billion.
Johnson & Johnson had been working with San Diego-based Cidara on the antiviral, CD388, after paying US$27 million up front in 2021, plus a milestone payment, but then backed out of the research, and Cidara reacquired the candidate in 2024.
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Posted 18 November 2025 AM
MSD is buying Cidara Therapeutics and its preventive antiviral biologic for influenza in a deal worth US$9.2 billion.
Johnson & Johnson had been working with San Diego-based Cidara on the antiviral, CD388, after paying US$27 million up front in 2021, plus a milestone payment, but then backed out of the research, and Cidara reacquired the candidate in 2024.
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