Beam Therapeutics Inc.’s potentially more than $1bn deal with Pfizer Inc. provides a significant validation for the gene-editing therapy’s base-editing technology and a long runway to develop its existing pipeline programs. And Beam is hoping there are more deals like it to come.
Beam Anticipates Pfizer Deal Will Lead To Additional Partnerships
The $300m upfront payment should provide considerable runway for the base-editing company, which also plans multiple IND filings and enrolling the first patient in its sickle cell study this year.
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