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LegoChem Brings Late Christmas Cheer With $1.7bn ADC Deal

Janssen Gets Worldwide Rights To Trop2-Directed ADC

 
• By Jung Won Shin

LegoChem Biosciences has sealed yet another sizable out-licensing agreement with a global big pharma firm, this time with Janssen, underlining the continued keen global interest in ADCs.

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LegoChem/Janssen ADC Deal Biggest So Far For Korean Firm • Source: Shutterstock

More signs of improvement in South Korean biopharma alliances emerged right at the end of 2023, with LegoChem Biosciences, Inc. announcing an up to $1.7bn antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) deal with Janssen Biotech Inc. just after Christmas. 

Key Takeaways

  • Deal marks another major deal with a global big pharma for LegoChem and the biggest out-licensing so far by a Korean biopharma firm.

  • Reinforces J&J’s commitment to expand its pipeline with multiple modalities and platforms in areas of high unmet need, including lung cancer

The much anticipated out-licensing agreement for worldwide development and commercialization rights to the Korean biotech’s Trop2-directed oncology ADC LCB84 (Trop2-MMAE) with Janssen

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