Sanofi Genzyme backs further out of deal with Voyager

18 June 2019

Having already backed out of an option on a Parkinson’s disease program in 2017, Sanofi Genzyme is now pulling further out of its collaboration with USA-based Voyager Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VYGR), as the companies yesterday announced a restructuring of their gene therapy relationship.

Under the terms of the agreement, Voyager re-gains worldwide rights to the VY-HTT01 Huntington’s disease program and ex-US rights to the VY-FXN01 Friedreich’s ataxia program. The ex-US rights to VY-FXN01 are, in turn, transferred from Voyager to Neurocrine Biosciences (Nasdaq: NBIX) under the terms of the collaboration agreement between Voyager and Neurocrine Biosciences announced in January 2019.

Despite the mixed news, Voyager’s shares, which fell 3.4% pre-market, ended trading on Monday up 10.35% at $26.75. Sanofi was up 2.7% at 77.52 euros by late afternoon today.

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