Hummingbird Bioscience Announces Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement With Callio Therapeutics

Singapore – March 3, 2025 – Cooley advised Hummingbird Bioscience, a Singapore-based biotherapeutics company working at the interface of artificial intelligence and human innovation to discover and develop transformative medicines for hard-to-treat diseases, on its exclusive worldwide license agreement with Callio Therapeutics, a newly launched biotech company focused on realizing the promise of multipayload antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to improve cancer therapy. Hummingbird Bioscience licensed its multipayload ADC platform in oncology, along with associated intellectual property and pipeline assets, to Callio Therapeutics in exchange for equity, potential milestone payments and royalties.

Lawyers James Schneider, Jeffrey Tolin, Steven Holm and Michael Fernando led the cross-border, interdisciplinary Cooley team advising Hummingbird Bioscience.

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