Jim Robinson, Urovant CEO

Urovant hops across the pond, out-li­cens­ing over­ac­tive blad­der drug to Pierre Fab­re for $75M

Urovant Sci­ences, the for­mer sub­sidiary of Vivek Ra­maswamy’s Roivant Sci­ences, is branch­ing out across the At­lantic in a new li­cens­ing deal.

The Cal­i­for­nia biotech and French multi­na­tion­al phar­ma and cos­met­ics com­pa­ny Pierre Fab­re joint­ly an­nounced Tues­day that they are pair­ing up, with Urovant giv­ing Pierre Fab­re the rights to reg­is­ter and com­mer­cial­ize over­ac­tive blad­der drug vibegron, known as Gemte­sa in sev­er­al mar­kets, in­clud­ing the en­tire EU, Ice­land, Liecht­en­stein, Nor­way, the UK and Switzer­land. The deal al­so in­cludes a few op­tion ter­ri­to­ries which, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment, in­clude “French-speak­ing coun­tries of Sub-Sa­ha­ran Africa, Turkey and cer­tain East­ern Eu­ro­pean coun­tries.”

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