ABLYNX - Multi-specific Nanobody candidate reached discovery milestone
- Ablynx to receive a €1 million success fee
GHENT, Belgium, 30 November 2016 - Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX; OTC: ABYLY] today announced that it has achieved an initial discovery milestone with a multi-specific Nanobody construct as part of its collaboration with Novo Nordisk, triggering a €1 million milestone payment to Ablynx.
Under the terms of the agreement with Novo Nordisk, signed on 25 November 2015, Ablynx received an upfront license fee of €5 million and will receive up to €4 million in research funding during the initial three year research term of the collaboration. In addition, Ablynx is eligible to receive potential development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments of up to €182 million plus tiered royalties on the annual net sales of any products resulting from the collaboration. Novo Nordisk is responsible for the development, manufacturing and commercialisation of any products resulting from this agreement.
Dr Edwin Moses, CEO of Ablynx, commented: "Our proprietary Nanobody technology platform is ideally suited to develop multi-specific Nanobody candidates that address multiple targets in a single drug molecule. The achievement of our first milestone just one year after we entered into the collaboration with Novo Nordisk is an endorsement of the power of our platform to rapidly generate novel, potent drug candidates against disease targets which are difficult to address with other technologies. We are looking forward to further advancing the programme and the Nanobody potentially progressing towards clinical studies in 2018."
About Ablynx
Ablynx is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of Nanobodies®, proprietary therapeutic proteins based on single-domain antibody fragments, which combine the advantages of conventional antibody drugs with some of the features of small-molecule drugs. Ablynx is dedicated to creating new medicines which will make a real difference to society. Today, the Company has more than 45 proprietary and partnered programmes in development in various therapeutic areas including inflammation, haematology, immuno-oncology, oncology and respiratory disease. The Company has collaborations with multiple pharmaceutical companies including AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eddingpharm, Genzyme, Merck & Co., Inc., Merck KGaA, Novartis, Novo Nordisk and Taisho Pharmaceuticals. The Company is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found on www.ablynx.com.
For more information, please contact
Ablynx:
Dr Edwin Moses
CEO
t: +32 (0)9 262 00 07
m: +32 (0)473 39 50 68
e: edwin.moses@ablynx.com
Marieke Vermeersch
Director IR & Corporate Communications
t: +32 (0)9 262 00 82
m: +32 (0)479 49 06 03
e: marieke.vermeersch@ablynx.com
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Source: Ablynx via Globenewswire
