Deal watch: Neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist revival heats up with Astellas acquisition

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 377 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.102 Author: Megan Cully Japan's Astellas Pharma has announced that it will acquire the Belgian biotech Ogeda for up to [euro]800 million, including milestone payments (Fig. 1). Ogeda's sole clinical asset, fezolinetant, is a small-molecule inhibitor of the neurokinin 3 receptor (NK3R), for which the company reported
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