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AbbVie and Voyager form Parkinson’s pact

by Ryan Cross
March 1, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 9

 

AbbVie has struck a second partnership with the neuroscience-focused gene-therapy firm Voyager Therapeutics. AbbVie is paying Voyager $65 million up front to develop gene therapies that contain instructions for making antibodies against the α-synuclein protein that accumulates in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease. Voyager could earn up to $245 million in milestone payments after preclinical and Phase I clinical studies, and nearly $1.3 billion in added milestone payments. Last year, the two companies formed a similar pact to develop an Alzheimer’s gene therapy.

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