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April 2023 Top Biopharma Deal: DualityBio development and commercialization deal with BioNTech for DB-1303 and DB-1311 for cancer
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- DualityBio granted BioNTech exclusive, worldwide rights, excluding China, Hong Kong, and Macau, to develop and commercialize DB-1303, a topoisomerase-1 inhibitor-based ADC, and DB-1311 for the treatment of human cancers.
- DualityBio has the option to co-develop and co-promote DB-1311 in the U.S. with cost and profit/loss sharing.
- DualityBio will receive $170M up front and is eligible for up $1.5B in development, regulatory, and sales milestones, plus single-digit to double-digit tiered royalties.
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Congrats to DualityBio and BioNTech for landing DealForma’s April 2023 Top Biopharma Deal. Last month’s Deal of the Month was OncoC4 – BioNTech for ONC-392. Read about it here.
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