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Ionis Catches The Eye With New Roche Alliance

 
• By Kevin Grogan

October has been a very good month for Ionis. Following US approval of Tegredi, it has now signed a potentially lucrative deal with existing partner Roche for another antisense drug, this time to tackle advanced dry AMD.

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Ionis sees clearer path for dry AMD drug with Roche onboard • Source: Shutterstock

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. has teamed up again with partner Roche and banked $75m upfront to develop one of the former's RNA-based drugs, one that was previously turned down by GlaxoSmithKline PLC, for geographic atrophy (GA) or advanced dry age-related macular degeneration.

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