Years af­ter link­ing arms with Bris­tol My­ers and both Mer­cks, Sutro finds its lat­est part­ner in Tokyo

Astel­las and Sutro Bio­phar­ma are link­ing arms on a new field of an­ti­body-drug con­ju­gates that they hope will im­prove up­on ex­ist­ing can­cer im­munother­a­pies.

The Tokyo phar­ma will dole out $90 mil­lion in cash for the col­lab­o­ra­tion, the com­pa­nies said Mon­day af­ter­noon. That up­front pay­ment will ex­tend the South San Fran­cis­co biotech’s run­way from late 2023 in­to the first half of 2024, Cowen an­a­lysts not­ed.

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