Roche vaults to the front of the NL­RP3 clin­i­cal race, pay­ing $448M up­front to bag In­fla­zome

Roche is go­ing all in on NL­RP3.

The phar­ma gi­ant is putting down $448 mil­lion (€380 mil­lion) up­front to snatch No­var­tis-backed In­fla­zome, which makes it a clin­i­cal play­er in the space overnight.

Dublin and Cam­bridge, UK-based In­fla­zome is the sec­ond NL­RP3-fo­cused biotech Roche has ac­quired in less than two years, and al­though no num­bers were dis­closed in the Je­cure buy­out, this is al­most cer­tain­ly a much larg­er deal.

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