Cel­gene rolls along with an­oth­er epi­ge­net­ic pre­clin­i­cal deal fea­tur­ing a Cana­di­an biotech

In an­oth­er de­c­la­ra­tion of its on­go­ing com­mit­ment to deal­mak­ing, Cel­gene is turn­ing to long­time part­ners at Triphase Ac­cel­er­a­tor for its lat­est pre­clin­i­cal as­set.

The area in fo­cus this time? Epi­ge­net­ics.

Specif­i­cal­ly, the drug that Cel­gene has just paid $40 mil­lion for tar­gets the WDR5 pro­tein, which is deemed crit­i­cal for the for­ma­tion and DNA-reg­u­lat­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of MLL1-as­so­ci­at­ed methy­la­tion com­plex­es. They be­lieve it’s a first-in-class can­di­date hold­ing promise in a range of blood can­cers, in­clud­ing acute lym­phoblas­tic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia.

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