SWISS-BASED PHARMA COMPANY IN EURO 400 MILLION CHINA INVESTMENT DEAL

A SWITZERLAND and Greece-based pharmaceutical company Sellas Life Sciences has signed a Euro EUR388 million investment deal with China’s Fochon Pharma for developing and selling two novel molecules for treating type II diabetes and lung cancer. Under the deal, Sellas will acquire the worldwide rights, outside China, to sell the resulting medicines, having organised and funded the clinical trials, some in Greece. Fochon, which discovered the molecules, will keep China sales rights and a 10% sales royalty. A Sellas communiqué said: “It is estimated that if the ...


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