Take­da pays $5M up­front to li­cense an­ti­bod­ies for celi­ac dis­ease drug de­vel­op­ment

Take­da is work­ing on adding an­oth­er celi­ac dis­ease can­di­date to its pipeline, ink­ing a li­cens­ing deal with In­nate Phar­ma, al­low­ing it to use a pan­el of an­ti­bod­ies to re­search and de­vel­op an­ti­body-drug con­ju­gates (AD­Cs).

In ex­change for ex­clu­sive world­wide rights to what­ev­er AD­Cs are de­vel­oped us­ing a se­lec­tion of In­nate’s an­ti­bod­ies, Take­da will give In­nate a $5 mil­lion up­front pay­ment with the po­ten­tial for $410 mil­lion in mile­stones, plus roy­al­ties on net sales of any prod­uct re­sult­ing from the li­cense.

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