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Evotec CSO: BMS Opt In On CNS Compound ‘Augurs Well’ For Discovery Pact

Brings Bristol Myers Additional Program Rights In Neurodegenerative Diseases.

 
• By Sten Stovall

Further promising compounds will be explored after Bristol Myers Squibb exercised its option to enter an exclusive license for Evotec’s investigational EVT8683, generated by the German group’s iPSC platform as a potential treatment for neurodegenerative conditions.

EVT8683 is the CNS discovery alliance’s most advanced program • Source: Alamy

It took less than five years for a CNS drug discovery pact between Evotec SE and Bristol Myers Squibb Company using the German pharma’s novel iPSC platform to bring its first compound to the verge of clinical testing in humans, and further candidates are likely to emerge shortly from the alliance.

That was the message from Cord Dohrmann, Evotec’s chief science officer after news last week that BMS had exercised its option to enter into worldwide license for Evotec’s EVT8683, a...

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