Adap­ti­m­mune los­es $3B biobucks pact with Genen­tech

Roche’s Genen­tech has bro­ken off its col­lab­o­ra­tion and li­cense agree­ment on off-the-shelf T cell ther­a­pies with Adap­ti­m­mune.

The pull­back means Adap­ti­m­mune could miss out on about $3 bil­lion in down­stream pay­ments as part of the agree­ment that was dis­closed two and a half years ago. Biobucks, as they’re col­lo­qui­al­ly called in the in­dus­try, are phar­ma’s ap­proach to drug de­vel­op­ment pacts and usu­al­ly don’t come to full fruition.

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