J&J goes back to Io­n­is for its sec­ond ex­per­i­men­tal pill for a GI au­toim­mune dis­ease

Al­most three years af­ter J&J $JNJ hand­ed over $35 mil­lion in cash and promised up to $800 mil­lion in mile­stones to cozy up to the an­ti­sense re­search team at Io­n­is, the phar­ma gi­ant has stepped back up for its sec­ond RNA de­vel­op­ment deal.

J&J is spend­ing $5 mil­lion to bag rights to IO­N­IS-JBI2-2.5Rx, which now goes in­to their gas­troin­testi­nal pipeline for au­toim­mune dis­ease, though the com­pa­nies are keep­ing the tar­get un­der wraps for now.

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