Pharma Deals Review, Vol 2010, No 8 (2010)

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Pfizer Acquires FoldRx to Broaden its Orphan Drug Portfolio

Heather Cartwright

Abstract


Pfizer has acquired FoldRx Pharmaceuticals for an undisclosed sum. In doing so, it has gained the rights to tafamidis meglumine, a non-surgical treatment for transthyretin (TTR) amyloid neuropathy (ATTR-PN), a rare genetic disease for which liver transplantation is the only current treatment.



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