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Genentech Signs Up Sosei Heptares GPCR Smarts For $1bn+ Deal

 
• By Mike Ward

The companies have agreed to a multi-year, multi-target research collaboration and license deal to discover and develop medicines that modulate GPCR targets across a range of diseases.

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Genentech Inc. has turned to Sosei Heptares  to help it to discover and develop medicines that are capable of modulating G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a very large and diverse gene family with a lot of promising drug targets within it. Under the terms of the deal, the collaboration will combine Sosei Heptares’ GPCR-focused structure-based drug design capabilities with Genentech’s discovery, development and therapeutic are expertise directed towards multiple Genentech-nomimated GPCR targets. Genentech will be responsible for developing and commercializing potential new medicines for each novel target and will have exclusive global rights to them.

“In the partnership, we expect to apply our StaR platform to targets they have selected and take the initial DNA,...

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