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Pharmaceuticals
Merck KGaA Buys Into Threshold Cancer Drug
by Lisa M. Jarvis
February 13, 2012
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 90, Issue 7
Merck KGaA will pay Threshold Pharmaceuticals $25 million up front and up to $525 million in milestones for access to the cancer treatment TH-302. Merck will also cover 70% of the development costs for TH-302, a small molecule that is activated in tumor cell environments where the oxygen concentration is low. A Phase III trial testing the compound in soft-tissue sarcoma is under way, and Threshold expects to reveal data from a Phase II trial in pancreatic cancer later this month. Threshold retains an option to jointly sell the drug in the U.S.
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