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Asia Deal Watch: Takeda, KSQ Take CRISPR Approach To T-Cell Oncology Therapy

 
• By Ian Haydock, Joseph Haas, and Jung Won Shin

Plus deals involving Astellas/Actinium, Sosei/PharmEnable, Aadi/EOC Pharma, BeiGene/Strand, Chi-Med/Inmagene, Alteogen/Intas, Sosei/AbbVie, Y-Biologics/3D Medicines.

Asia Deal Watch

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

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. will test out US biotech KSQ Therapeutics' CRISPRomics discovery platform to yield novel T-cell therapies for cancer under a collaboration and licensing pact unveiled on 13 January. Specific deal terms were not disclosed but Takeda said upfront cash and preclinical milestones to KSQ could top $100m

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