MorphoSys Teams Up Again With Novartis For Preclinical Cancer Program

Gets $23m Upfront Fee

07 Dec 2022

The German biotech announced in March that it was terminating the early-stage oncology R&D projects that came with its purchase of Constellation last year and Novartis has snapped up one of them.

MorphoSys AG has been looking to end the early-stage research programs that came with its 2021 acquisition of Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for some time, but the German group has now found a home for one of them and inked a deal with Novartis AG.

The Swiss major has agreed to a global licensing agreement covering "preclinical inhibitors of a novel cancer target." It is...

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