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Merck to buy Terns Pharmaceuticals for $6.7bn

By Michele Maatouk

Date: Wednesday 25 Mar 2026

(Sharecast News) - Merck said on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Terns Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology company, for $6.7bn.
Under the terms of the deal, Merck will pay $53 per share in cash.

Terns' lead candidate, TERN-701, is a novel investigational oral allosteric BCR::ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)...

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