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Merck Signs an Exclusive Agreement with Dewpoint Therapeutics to Develop Curative Treatment for HIV

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Merck Signs an Exclusive Agreement with Dewpoint Therapeutics to Develop Curative Treatment for HIV

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  • Dewpoint to receive up to $305M as up front and milestone along with royalties on sales of any approved product emerges under the collaboration
  • The collaboration leverages Dewpoint’s biomolecular condensate platform to develop an HIV drug candidate with a unique mechanism- providing the potential to cure rather than suppressing the infection
  • Biomolecular condensates are droplet-like structures that form dynamically within cells when diverse communities of proteins- RNAs- and other biomolecules come together through a process called phase separation

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Ref: Dewpoint | Image: Merck 


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