{"id":12448,"date":"2026-04-02T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:26:54","slug":"why-biogen-is-paying-5-6b-to-buy-apellis-pharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12448","title":{"rendered":"Why Biogen Is Paying $5.6B to Buy Apellis Pharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/why-biogen-is-paying-5-6b-to-buy-apellis-pharma\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biogen\u2019s Apellis Pharmaceuticals acquisition comes nearly two years after the drugmaker purchased immunology startup Human Immunology Biosciences. CEO Chris Viehbacher said Apellis accelerates Biogen\u2019s expansion in nephrology, supporting a HI-Bio drug currently in pivotal testing for three kidney conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/why-biogen-is-paying-5-6b-to-buy-apellis-pharma\/\">Why Biogen Is Paying $5.6B to Buy Apellis Pharma<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biogen\u2019s Apellis Pharmaceuticals acquisition comes nearly two years after the drugmaker purchased immunology startup Human Immunology Biosciences. CEO Chris Viehbacher said Apellis accelerates Biogen\u2019s expansion in nephrology, supporting a HI-Bio drug currently in pivotal testing for three kidney conditions. The post Why Biogen Is Paying $5.6B to Buy Apellis Pharma appeared first on MedCity News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12448","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\/12448"}],"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=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}