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Neuroscience

Roche signs license agreement for UCB’s tau-targeting antibody

by Ryan Cross
July 31, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 30

 

Roche will pay $120 million to license UCB0107, an experimental antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease developed by the Belgian firm UCB. The antibody targets tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s. After UCB runs a proof-of-concept study, Roche will decide whether to continue developing the antibody or return full rights to UCB. If successful, UCB could earn nearly $2 billion in milestone payments from Roche. Last year, Roche ended two late-stage studies of an antibody that targeted amyloid beta.

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