{"id":12201,"date":"2026-03-23T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:39:56","slug":"why-novartis-is-paying-2b-for-a-cancer-drug-that-hits-the-same-target-as-one-of-its-own-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12201","title":{"rendered":"Why Novartis Is Paying $2B for a Cancer Drug That Hits the Same Target as One of Its Own Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/03\/novartis-acquisition-breast-cancer-drug-pikavation-synnovation-pi3k-alpha-inhibitor-nvs\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novartis already markets the PI3K\u03b1 inhibitor Piqray for breast cancer, but acquiring a Synnovation Therapeutics subsidiary brings an early clinical program that the pharma company claims could be best in the class of next-generation therapies for the target. Competitors include Eli Lilly, Relay Therapeutics, and OnKure Therapeutics. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/03\/novartis-acquisition-breast-cancer-drug-pikavation-synnovation-pi3k-alpha-inhibitor-nvs\/\">Why Novartis Is Paying $2B for a Cancer Drug That Hits the Same Target as One of Its Own Products<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novartis already markets the PI3K\u03b1 inhibitor Piqray for breast cancer, but acquiring a Synnovation Therapeutics subsidiary brings an early clinical program that the pharma company claims could be best in the class of next-generation therapies for the target. Competitors include Eli Lilly, Relay Therapeutics, and OnKure Therapeutics. The post Why Novartis Is Paying $2B for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}