Ignis Therapeutics and STADA partner on apomorphine in China

18 March 2022

China’s Ignis Therapeutics and Germany’s STADA Arzneimittel’s (SAZ: Xetra) Britannia Pharmaceuticals UK affiliate today jointly announced the signing of an exclusive licensing agreement under which Ignis Therapeutics will develop and commercialize subcutaneous apomorphine for Parkinson's disease in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Under terms of the agreement, Britannia will receive an undisclosed upfront payment, milestone payments and sales-based royalties. Further terms of the collaboration were not revealed.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) currently affects an estimated 3 million people in China, with around 150,000 new diagnoses of the progressive neurological condition every year..A registry study conducted by Stacy et al. (2008) found that 16% of total PD patients fell within the advanced category for which continuous and intermittent dopaminergic treatment could be appropriate.

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