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- Collaboration to Utilize CytomX’s Novel Probody® Technology Platform for CD3 Bispecific Targets - - CytomX to Receive $80 Million Upfront Payment and Ability to Exercise Option for U.S. Co-Commercialization Rights - SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA and Tokyo, March 23, 2020 - CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTMX, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman: Sean McCarthy, D. Phil. “CytomX”) and...

TOKYO , March 18, 2020 - Gifu University (President: Hisataka Moriwaki M.D., Ph.D.) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the parties have established, inside Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, a joint research course entitled, “Phage Biologics Research Course” (Lead professor: Hiroki Nagai, Ph.D., Professor of...

- Breakthrough Therapy Designation Based on Initial Results from Phase 1b/2 EV-103 Clinical Trial - TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash., February 19, 2020 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for PADCEV™...

- After Median Follow-Up of 11.5 Months, 73 Percent of Patients Had Confirmed Tumor Response with Majority of Responses Still Ongoing; No New Safety Signals Observed for the Combination - - Findings To Be Presented During an Oral Session at the 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium - BOTHELL, Wash. and TOKYO, February 10, 2020 – Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE...