Ipsen Strengthens Early Clinical Pipeline With IRLAB’s Mesdepotem For Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia

Upfront Of $28m

Ipsen has gained worldwide development and commercialization rights to IRLAB’s dopamine D3 antagonist, mesdepotem, in levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease.

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France’s Ipsen SA is delivering on one of its strategic aims, to build up its early clinical R&D pipeline in a small number of targeted therapeutic areas including neuroscience, by licensing exclusive worldwide rights to IRLAB Therapeutics AB’s clinical-stage candidate, mesdopetam, for use in Parkinson’s disease. 

Mesdopetam (IRL-790) appears to be in the sweet-spot of Paris-headquartered Ipsen, being a novel, oral, dopamine D3-receptor antagonist which has completed Phase IIa studies and

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