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Voyager gets $165M up front from Neurocrine for gene therapies
February 1, 2019 7:42 PM UTC
Voyager Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:VYGR) will receive $165 million up front from Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ:NBIX) in exchange for a license to four of Voyager's neurology gene therapy programs. Voyager is eligible for $1.7 billion in milestones across the four programs.
Neurocrine gains rights to develop and commercialize VY-AADC, which is in the Phase II RESTORE-1 trial to treat Parkinson's disease; VY-FXN01, which is in preclinical testing to treat Friedreich ataxia; plus two programs yet to be determined...