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Geron inks $935m Janssen deal after clinical hold lift

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Geron will get $35m up front and may earn up to $900m in milestone fees plus royalties on future sales of the telomerase inhibitor imetelstat under the biotechnology company's worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech subsidiary.

Geron will get $35m up front and may earn up to $900m in milestone fees plus royalties on future sales of the telomerase inhibitor imetelstat under the biotechnology company's worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech subsidiary.

November has been a good month for Menlo Park, California-based Geron, since the US FDA recently lifted a full clinical hold on the company's Phase II program for imetelstat, which included studies in the treatment of essential thrombocythemia (ET) and multiple myeloma

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