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BMS Links With Japanese Firms

by Michael McCoy
March 9, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 10

Bristol-Myers Squibb is collaborating with the Japanese companies Nissan Chemical Industries and Teijin Pharma to develop Nissan’s NTC-801 outside Japan. Teijin already has Japanese rights. A selective inhibitor of the acetylcholine-activated potassium ion channel, NTC-801 is currently in Phase I development in Japan for treating a form of arrhythmia. BMS will pay $40 million up front and potentially make milestone payments of up to $170 million.

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