IMPACT Therapeutics, Seven and Eight Biopharma Announce Global License, Collaboration Agreements With Eikon

Palo Alto and Shanghai – June 14, 2023 – Cooley advised IMPACT Therapeutics and Seven and Eight Biopharmaceuticals on their respective license and collaboration agreements with Eikon Therapeutics, a biotechnology company. Partners Lila Hope and Yiming Liu led the Cooley team advising IMPACT. Hope, Steve Przesmicki and Bin Wang led the Cooley team advising Seven and Eight.

IMPACT is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of targeted anti-cancer innovative drugs based on synthetic lethality. IMPACT’s agreement grants Eikon an exclusive license to co-develop, register, manufacture and commercialize IMPACT’s PARP1 selective inhibitors – including IMP1734 – globally, excluding Greater China. The collaboration will allow IMPACT to accelerate the development of its PARP1 inhibitors, which exploit DNA damage response irregularities often found in tumors to selectively kill cancer cells.

Seven and Eight is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of novel immunotherapies for cancer. Its agreement also grants Eikon exclusive global rights to develop and commercialize TLR7/8, Seven and Eight’s novel immune modulator agonists targeting toll-like receptor 7 and 8, as well as novel toll-like receptor ligand antibody conjugation molecules.

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