Protagonist Therapeutics Announces Closing of Worldwide Rusfertide License and Collaboration Agreement with Takeda
NEWARK, CA / ACCESSWIRE / March 18, 2024 / Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. ("Protagonist" or the "Company") today announces the closing of the worldwide collaboration and license agreement for rusfertide with Takeda, a leading values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical company, disclosed on January 31, 2024. Closing of the transaction was contingent on completion of review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 in the United States. Protagonist will receive the $300 million upfront payment associated with the transaction in the second quarter of 2024.
About Protagonist
Protagonist Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company with peptide-based new chemical entities (NCEs) rusfertide and JNJ-2113 (formerly PN-235) in advanced stages of clinical development, both derived from the Company's proprietary technology platform. Protagonist and JNJ scientists jointly discovered PN-235 (now known as JNJ-2113) as part of Protagonist's Interleukin-23 receptor (IL-23R) collaboration with JNJ and followed it through IND-enabling pre-clinical and Phase 1 studies, with JNJ assuming responsibility for further clinical development. Rusfertide, a mimetic of the natural hormone hepcidin, is the Company's lead drug candidate currently in a global Phase 3 development program. The randomized portion of the Phase 2 REVIVE study was unblinded, showing positive results and is now complete, with an open-label extension underway. The global Phase 3 VERIFY study of rusfertide in polycythemia vera is ongoing. Rusfertide will be co-developed and co-commercialized with Takeda pursuant to a worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Takeda entered into in January 2024.
More information on Protagonist, its pipeline drug candidates and clinical studies can be found on the Company's website at www.protagonist-inc.com.
Investor Relations Contact
Corey Davis, Ph.D.
LifeSci Advisors
+1 212 915 2577
cdavis@lifesciadvisors.com
Media Contact
Virginia Amann, Founder/CEO
ENTENTE Network of Companies
virginiaamann@ententeinc.com
SOURCE: Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc.
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