Take­da and Fra­zier team up again to launch a spin­out — this time fo­cused on a late-stage vac­cine

Take­da has plucked a late-stage vac­cine from the pipeline and hand­ed it to a spin­out com­pa­ny — once again turn­ing to some col­leagues at Fra­zier Health­care Part­ners to make the deal work.

The phar­ma gi­ant is spin­ning out its norovirus vac­cine TAK-214 to a start­up called Hill­e­Vax for the last stage of what will like­ly be a con­sid­er­able R&D jour­ney. The world was treat­ed to a record set­ting late-stage pro­gram for Covid-19 vac­cines, but reg­u­lar de­vel­op­ment in the field typ­i­cal­ly take years to see out.

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