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Pfizer Buys Into Promise Of Imcyse Imotopes

Rheumatoid Arthritis Alliance Inked

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The US giant is taking a stake in Imcyse and taking over a program to develop RA drugs in a deal that validates the Belgian group's imotope technology.

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Imcyse is latest Belgian biotech to start blooming • Source: Shutterstock

Pfizer Inc. is to acquire a stake in ImCyse S.A. having entered into a collaboration to develop treatments for rheumatoid arthritis using the Belgian biotech's technology to produce modified peptides called imotopes.

Following the successful completion of a research pact initiated in 2017, the companies have decided to move their alliance forward...

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