STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer to buy Trillium in $2.3 billion deal; Israel data find additional vaccine dose lowers Covid risk

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Pfizer (PFE) will buy cancer-drug developer Trillium Therapeutics (TRIL) in a deal that values the company at $2.26 billion, Reuters reports. Trillium develops drugs that boost patients’ immune systems to fight off cancer cells, and its two leading candidates focus on blood cancers.

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