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Mergers & Acquisitions

AbbVie buys Syndesi for neuroscience compound

by Michael McCoy
March 6, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 9

 

AbbVie has acquired neuroscience drug developer Syndesi Therapeutics for $130 million and milestone payments of up to $870 million. Syndesi was founded in 2017 to develop modulators of synaptic vesicle protein 2A, which plays a role in regulating neurotransmission. The modulators, including Syndesi’s lead compound SDI-118, were discovered by UCB. AbbVie says it plans to advance SDI-118, which is now in Phase 1b clinical trials.

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