GlaxoSmithKline Returns Drug Rights to ChemoCentryx After Failed Trial

GlaxoSmithKline gave up all the rights for all indications to vercirnon after the drug candidate performed poorly in a Phase III trial, according to News-Medical report.

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ChemoCentryx now owns the drug’s rights, including for inflammatory bowel disease, thus ending the seven-year strategic alliance between the two companies. GSK initially paid $63.5 million to ChemoCentryx to study treatments for IBD.

Vercirnon failed to meet GSK’s primary and secondary endpoint in the first of four Phase III trials; the drug neither brought an improved clinical response nor clinical remission.

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