Merck & Co. Stock News

Merck said on Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to receive funds managed by Blackstone Life Sciences for $700 million to develop an experimental cancer therapy.

RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the company has entered into an agreement to receive funds managed by Blackstone Life Sciences (“Blackstone”) for the development of sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT), an investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2), a...

RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced that the company, through a subsidiary (Prometheus BioSciences), has reached an agreement with Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH (Falk) to discontinue an existing contract concerning co-development and co-commercialization rights in certain territories for MK-8690 (formerly PRA-052), and f...

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RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck Foundation Launches $22 Million Initiative to Improve Cardiovascular Care in the U.S.

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Merck & Co., Inc. ( MRK ) Q3 2025 Earnings Call October 30, 2025 9:00 AM EDT Company Participants Peter Dannenbaum - Vice President of Investor Relations Robert Davis - Chairman, President & CEO Caroline Litchfield - Executive VP & CFO Dean Li - Executive VP & President of Merck Research Laboratories Conference Call Participants Asad Haider - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Geoffre...