Roche Signs a License Agreement with Sarepta for its Gene Therapy Candidate SRP-9001
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- Sarepta to receive $1.15B up front including $750M in cash $400M in Sarepta stock- priced at $158.59/share of common stock- up to $1.7B regulatory and sales milestones plus royalties on sales. Sarepta will be responsible for SRP-9001’s clinical development and manufacturing with global clinical cost equally shared
- Roche to get exclusive rights to commercialize Sarepta’s SRP-9001 outside the US for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Additionally- Roche has an option to acquire ex-US rights for certain DMD products from Sarepta in exchange of milestone and royalty considerations- and cost sharing
- SRP-9001 (AAVrh74.MHCK7.micro-dystrophin) is an investigational gene therapy candidate targeted for DMD designed to deliver micro-dystrophin-encoding gene directly to the muscle tissue for the targeted production of the micro-dystrophin protein. The transaction is expected to close in Q1’20
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