Deal Watch: Gain To Test Enzyme-Enhancement Tech In Cancer With Zentalis

Argenx partners with Elektrofi and Iontas; China’s Qilu obtains global rights to Peptron’s antibody-drug conjugate and also ends co-development pact with Quantum Genomics.

Deal Watch 2021

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

Gain Therapeutics, Inc. unveiled a multi-target cancer-focused collaboration with Zentalis Pharmaceuticals on 20 April that will initiate the first use of Gain’s Site-Directed Enzyme Enhancement Therapy (SEE-Tx) platform in oncology

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