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Home » Blueprint Medicines, Alexion Pharmaceuticals ink $265M deal

Blueprint Medicines, Alexion Pharmaceuticals ink $265M deal

March 4, 2015
CenterWatch Staff

Blueprint Medicines is collaborating with Alexion Pharmaceuticals to discover, develop and commercialize novel drug candidates for an undisclosed activated kinase target, which is the cause of a rare genetic disease.

Blueprint Medicines will apply its kinase-focused drug discovery platform to identify and optimize drug candidates and will conduct all research activities prior to the filing of an IND application with the FDA. Alexion will be responsible for the development and commercialization of these Blueprint Medicines' drug candidates under the collaboration.

Blueprint Medicines, a privately held company based in Cambridge, Mass., makes kinase drugs to treat patients with genomically defined diseases. Alexion is a biopharmaceutical company with global headquarters and research operations in Cheshire, Conn. The company will move to New Haven, Conn., in 2015.

"Our kinase-focused platform, which integrates a novel target discovery engine and a proprietary compound library, enables us to craft highly selective kinase drugs for genomic drivers of disease across many therapeutic areas. Alexion is the ideal partner for our rare genetic disease program with their successful track record developing and commercializing therapies for severe and life-threatening disorders," said Jeffrey Albers, CEO of Blueprint Medicines. "Working with Alexion on this target will allow the team at Blueprint Medicines to focus on our primary strategic area of oncology, while we leverage our platform in additional therapeutic areas."

Blueprint Medicines will receive an upfront payment of $15 million and will be reimbursed for all research expenses. Blueprint Medicines is eligible to receive over $250 million in payments upon the successful achievement of pre-specified preclinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial milestones. In addition, Blueprint Medicines will be eligible to receive royalty payments following the commercialization of the product.

"Blueprint Medicines' unique discovery platform enables it to create drug candidates for extremely challenging kinase targets. Even in these early stages, Blueprint Medicines' compounds show impressive selectivity toward the mutant kinase, thereby sparing other kinases and delivering drug to the specified target," said Martin Mackay, Ph.D., executive vice president, global head of R&D at Alexion.

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