{"id":12260,"date":"2026-03-25T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:53:12","slug":"mercks-6-7b-terns-acquisition-positions-it-to-challenge-a-blockbuster-novartis-cancer-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12260","title":{"rendered":"Merck\u2019s $6.7B Terns Acquisition Positions It to Challenge a Blockbuster Novartis Cancer Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/03\/merck-terns-pharma-acquisition-cancer-chronic-myeloid-leukemia-cml-tern-mrk\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merck has been acquiring assets that could help make up for the coming revenue decline as its top product, the cancer drug Keytruda, drops off the patent cliff.  Terns Pharmaceuticals\u2019 lead product candidate, in development for treating a type of leukemia, could offer dosing and efficacy advantages over the Novartis drug Scemblix.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/03\/merck-terns-pharma-acquisition-cancer-chronic-myeloid-leukemia-cml-tern-mrk\/\">Merck\u2019s $6.7B Terns Acquisition Positions It to Challenge a Blockbuster Novartis Cancer Drug<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merck has been acquiring assets that could help make up for the coming revenue decline as its top product, the cancer drug Keytruda, drops off the patent cliff. Terns Pharmaceuticals\u2019 lead product candidate, in development for treating a type of leukemia, could offer dosing and efficacy advantages over the Novartis drug Scemblix. The post Merck\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12260","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\/12260"}],"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=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}