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Oncology

Kyowa Kirin invests in MEI Pharma’s blood-cancer drug

by Ryan Cross
April 18, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 15

 

The Japanese drugmaker Kyowa Kirin will pay San Diego–based MEI Pharma $100 million up front and up to $583 million in milestone payments to develop and commercialize its experimental blood-cancer drug, MEI-401. The compound, a small-molecule inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) delta, is being tested in a Phase II study of follicular lymphoma and a Phase I study of B-cell malignancies. The firms will split costs and profits in the US, while Kyowa Kirin has exclusive rights to the drug everywhere else.

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