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Neuroscience

Takeda taps Anima Biotech to drug mRNA translation

by Ryan Cross
March 26, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 11

 

Takeda Pharmaceutical is collaborating with Anima Biotech to discover and develop small-molecule drugs for three neurological disease targets, including Huntington’s disease. Anima seeks to find molecules that can accelerate or slow messenger RNA translation and, as a result, increase or decrease the production of proteins encoded by mRNA. Anima will earn $120 million in up-front and preclinical research milestones and up to $1.1 billion in clinical and commercial milestones. Takeda has an option to expand the collaboration to include three more targets, earning Anima up to $1.2 billion more.

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