Eisai Announces Completion of Acquisition of Morphotek
Oncology is one of the Eisai's focused areas per defined in the company's 5th mid-term global business plan, the "Dramatic Leap Plan". Eisai currently has an extensive global oncology research program for discovering small molecule anti-cancer agents. This acquisition enables the expansion of Eisai's capabilities into the biologic therapeutics field, with which Eisai will make further contributions to fulfilling a variety of unmet medical needs. In addition, the expansion of Eisai's research & development capability complements the company's establishment of its oncology sales and marketing operations in the U.S.
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