- CEO
- Arkadius Pichota
- Full Time Employees
- 524
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Biotechnology
- Address
- Semmelweisstrasse 7 Planegg Germany 82152
- IPO Date
- Apr 28, 2010
- Business
- MorphoSys AG is a Germany-based commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapies focused on oncology, particularly blood cancers such as leukemia; its main products include Minjuvi (tafasitamab), a CD19-directed cytolytic monoclonal antibody approved for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in combination with lenalidomide; pelabresib, a BET inhibitor in late-stage development for myelofibrosis; and ianalumab, an anti-BAFF monoclonal antibody under investigation for autoimmune diseases including Sjögren's syndrome; the company employs proprietary antibody discovery platforms including HuCAL and Ylanthia for generating fully human therapeutic antibodies, protein engineering technologies and peptide scaffolds; founded in 1992 and headquartered in Planegg near Munich, MorphoSys operates globally with a subsidiary in Boston, Massachusetts, targeting patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors through clinical-stage and partnered programs with pharmaceutical collaborators; in 2024, Novartis completed its EUR 2.7 billion acquisition of MorphoSys, integrating its oncology pipeline including pelabresib and ianalumab into Novartis' portfolio, followed by voluntary delistings from Nasdaq and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, a merger squeeze-out of minority shareholders at EUR 68 per share, and management board appointments of Arkadius Pichota and Lukas Gilgen.