Am­gen ponies up $240M for Michi­gan dis­cov­ery out­fit's den­drit­ic cell tar­get­ing mol­e­cules for au­toim­mune dis­or­ders

In the mas­sive im­munol­o­gy mar­ket, some of phar­ma’s biggest play­ers are look­ing for nov­el path­ways to treat dis­ease ar­eas al­ready packed with big-name drugs. Now, with an im­munol­o­gy block­buster of its own in Ote­zla, Am­gen is pony­ing up to part­ner with a Michi­gan dis­cov­ery out­fit look­ing to tar­get den­drit­ic cells to churn up im­mune tol­er­ance.

Am­gen will pay $240 mil­lion in up­front cash and mile­stone pay­ments for mol­e­cules tar­get­ing au­toim­mune con­di­tions from Ann Ar­bor, MI-based Evoq Ther­a­peu­tics, a spin­off of re­search from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, the biotech said Wednes­day.

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