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Serono Bolsters New Drug Pipeline

October 23, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 43

Serono has licensed a late-stage drug for cognitive disorders from Italian R&D firm Newron Pharmaceuticals. Serono will pay Newron up to $200 million in up-front payments and milestones for access to safinamide, an α-aminoamide derivative that is currently in Phase III trials for Parkinson's disease. The Swiss biotech firm will also fund all future development and marketing costs for the small-molecule drug. Newron retains the right to copromote the drug in Italy and Spain.

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