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Oncology

GSK and Ideaya seal synthetic lethality pact

by Lisa M. Jarvis
June 20, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 24

GlaxoSmithKline will pay Ideaya Bioscience $100 million to gain access to three cancer drug–discovery programs. The deal, which includes an equity stake in the biotech worth $20 million, centers on finding drugs that exploit the concept of synthetic lethality, wherein a cancer cell can survive without one gene but dies if a second gene is crippled. GSK is buying into three synthetic lethality targets—MAT2A, Pol Theta, and Werner Helicase—for which Ideaya says it has solved crystal structures and made preclinical progress.

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