Crescendo Biologics reaches another milestone in its deal with Takeda

Crescendo Biologics reaches another milestone in its deal with Takeda

September 24, 2019 Off By BusinessWire

Crescendo Biologics has reached fifth milestone in its deal with Takeda from 2016, for using its Humabody-based therapeutics against targets which Takeda selects.

CAMBRIDGE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Crescendo Biologics Ltd (Crescendo), the drug developer of novel, targeted T cell enhancing therapeutics, today announces that it has achieved a fifth milestone in its collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda).

Under the global, strategic, multi-target collaboration and license agreement with Takeda that was announced in October 2016, Crescendo’s proprietary transgenic platform and engineering expertise is used to identify and configure Humabody®-based therapeutics against certain targets selected by Takeda.

Under the terms of the agreement, Crescendo has successfully delivered three novel oncology-targeted Humabody lead molecules. Takeda has taken exclusive licenses to both of the first two programmes in this highly productive collaboration.

Theodora Harold, CEO of Crescendo Biologics, said: “Reaching this fifth technical milestone marks our continued progress towards our joint goal with Takeda of creating the next generation of differentiated cancer therapies and provides strong validation of the work being done at Crescendo.”