STAT Plus: Biogen strikes $1 billion deal with Denali to advance Parkinson’s drug based on approach that was nearly abandoned
Biogen said Thursday it will pay more than $1 billion to the biotech firm Denali for rights to a Parkinson’s drug based on an approach that was nearly abandoned by several major pharmaceutical firms in recent years but that has since shown potential to help treat the disease. The deal also includes rights to a Denali technology for delivering medicines to the brain.
“This is a major milestone,” said Ryan Watts, Denali’s CEO and co-founder. He said the company had “the firepower to do very thorough science and drug development,” which meant that it also had the wherewithal to previously move beyond the failure of other promising programs.
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