Merck, Moderna and cancer vaccine
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Moderna has been looking for its next blockbuster drug after a wildly successful COVID era.
Shares of Moderna rocketed by 93% to around $121.90 on Wednesday, pacing what would be the stock’s best-ever trading session after surging by more than 100% in premarket trading. That came after Moderna and Merck announced their personalized cancer vaccine helped cut the recurrence of melanoma—a form of skin cancer—in a late-stage trial involving more than 1,
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial evaluating adjuvant treatment with intismeran autogene (intismeran;