Shots:

• Sosei Heptares to receive $26M up front- R&D funding- $1.2B+ development & commercial milestones and royalties on sales of the licensed products. Takeda to get WW rights to develop & commercialize therapies for each target through specified pharmacological approaches in the collaboration
• The focus of the agreement is to develop multiple GPCR targets nominated by Takeda by combining Sosei Heptares’ GPCR-focused structure-based drug design capabilities with Takeda’s expertise in discovery- development and therapeutic area
• The partners initially work on GI targets to discover therapies for gut inflammation and motility disorders with an expected expansion of an agreement in other therapeutic areas

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