Amgen Buys Onyx

So Amgen's bid for Onyx look like it's going through, and the reaction of John Carroll at FiercePharma was to tweet "Expect big layoffs soon". He took some flak for being such a downer, but he's right, as far as I can see. Amgen isn't buying Onyx for their research staff, or any of their people at all. As that Bloomberg story linked to above has it, "Amgen to Buy Onyx for $10.4 Billion to Gain Cancer Drug". That's Kyprolis (carfilzomib), their proteasome inhibitor, and that's all they need from Onyx, who bought the compound anyway when they acquired Proteolix a few years ago. So since I don't want to be a downer either, especially on Monday morning, I'd be interested to see if anyone can make another case. . .
Source: In the Pipeline - Category: Chemists Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs