Jazz trig­gers Co­di­ak’s first ex­o­some al­liance with a $76M ante and up to $1B-plus in mile­stones

Co­di­ak CEO Doug Williams has notched his first col­lab­o­ra­tion deal.

The biotech ex­ec and his team are col­lect­ing a $56 mil­lion up­front from Jazz Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals $JAZZ as Co­di­ak ramps up 5 trans­la­tion­al pro­grams us­ing its ex­o­some plat­form, with two of the can­cer tar­gets in pub­lic sight — NRAS and STAT3. There’s an­oth­er $20 mil­lion on the ta­ble for near-term pre­clin­i­cal goals, with a $200 mil­lion pack­age of mile­stones per tar­get and a roy­al­ty arrange­ment for suc­cess.

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