Ipsen Buys Into BAX Inhibitor, Targeting Certain Cancers

Ipsen And BAKX Will Develop Latter’s BCL-2 Inhibitor

Ipsen has inked a worldwide collaboration pact with BAKX Therapeutics to research, develop, manufacture and commercialize the biotech’s asset BKX-001 as a potential treatment for leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors.

Investigational BKX-001 is an oral small-molecule activator of BAX • Source: Alamy

Continuing its search for promising external compounds, Ipsen SA has signed an exclusive global pact with BAKX Therapeutics to research, develop, manufacture and commercialize the US biotech’s investigational therapy BKX-001 as a potential treatment for leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors, by targeting the B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) family of proteins.

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