Deal Watch: AbbVie Exits Inherited CRISPR-Cas9 Team-Up With Editas

Editas regains rights to ocular programs first partnered with Allergan in 2017. Newly public F-star will focus on bispecific antibodies for cancer, TriSalus acquires oncology candidate from Dynavax.

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Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Biomedtracker.

Genome-editing specialist Editas Medicine announced on 7 August that it will reacquire full rights to a set of ocular therapy programs it partnered on with Allergan plc in 2017, after AbbVie Inc

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