GSK Exercises Its Option to License Ionis' Antisense Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection
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- Ionis to receive ~$262M milestones including $25M license fee with royalties on sales of products. GSK to exercise its option to license program following positive P-II results and will be responsible for all development- regulatory- commercialization activities and its costs
- In Mar’2010- GSK and Ionis collaborated on RNA therapies for rare and infectious diseases and granted GSK option to license and commercialize therapies at the clinical proof-of-concept
- Ionis’ antisense technology targets the process of producing a protein before it even begins and has developed a first treatment for SMA in adults & children and world's first RNA-targeted therapies for polyneuropathy in adults with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
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