ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
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ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a small pharmaceutical company
working on cancer drugs. The company is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts
. It was established in 1991 by Larry Bock, David Blech and Dr. Harvery Berger. It has strong partnerships with Merck
.
Pharmaceutical company
The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to deal in generic and/or brand medications and medical devices...
working on cancer drugs. The company is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
. It was established in 1991 by Larry Bock, David Blech and Dr. Harvery Berger. It has strong partnerships with Merck
Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...
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Products under development
- PonatinibPonatinibPonatinib is an experimental oral drug candidate for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia and Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia . It is a multi-targeted tyrosine-kinase inhibitor. Some forms of CML, those that have the T315I mutation, are resistant to current...
- Ridaforolimus (formerly Deforolimus, partnered with Merck)
- AP26113AP26113AP26113 is a small-molecule targeted cancer therapy, developed by ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. AP26113 has exhibited activity as a potent dual inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase and epidermal growth factor receptor...