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Janssen, MacroGenics sign second pact

by Lisa M. Jarvis
May 23, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 21

Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, will pay MacroGenics $75 million to license the bispecific antibody MGD015. In preclinical studies, MGD015 blocks both CD3 and an undisclosed tumor target with the goal of redirecting T cells to kill cells that overexpress the undisclosed antigen. This is the second pact between Janssen and MacroGenics. The companies are already developing MGD011, a bispecific molecule targeting CD19 and CD3, as a blood cancer treatment.

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