No­var­tis sends sec­ond wag­on af­ter KRAS gold rush

Join­ing the bar­rage of com­pa­nies dig­ging head­first in­to the new­ly opened KRAS mine, No­var­tis has an­nounced a mul­ti­year agree­ment with Sixth El­e­ment Cap­i­tal and the UK Beat­son In­sti­tute for Can­cer Re­search to de­vel­op small mol­e­cules iden­ti­fied by the in­sti­tute’s drug dis­cov­ery unit.

The deal, whose specifics have not been dis­closed, is the Swiss gi­ant’s sec­ond KRAS col­lab­o­ra­tion since June, when Am­gen elec­tri­fied the field by re­veal­ing the first pa­tient ef­fi­ca­cy da­ta from a ther­a­py aimed at one of the most per­va­sive, old­est and eva­sive can­cer mu­ta­tion tar­gets. In Ju­ly, No­var­tis inked a low-mon­ey deal with Mi­rati Ther­a­peu­tics.

Endpoints News

Unlock this article instantly by becoming a free subscriber.

You’ll get access to free articles each month, plus you can customize what newsletters get delivered to your inbox each week, including breaking news.