As­traZeneca hands Com­pu­gen $10M to launch I/O dis­cov­ery deal; RA Cap­i­tal joins op­po­si­tion to pro­posed BioCryst/Idera merg­er

→ Is­rael’s Com­pu­gen $CGEN nabbed a $10 mil­lion up­front to get start­ed on a dis­cov­ery deal with As­traZeneca on bi- and mul­ti-spe­cif­ic an­ti­bod­ies for im­muno-on­col­o­gy. The phar­ma gi­ant al­so com­mit­ted to $200 mil­lion in mile­stones. “This li­cens­ing deal al­lows us to mon­e­tize spe­cif­ic sci­en­tif­ic ad­vances in our pro­grams, while we con­tin­ue to ad­vance our lead pro­grams in­to clin­i­cal tri­als,” said Com­pu­gen CEO Anat Co­hen-Dayag.

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