NetworkNewsBreaks – Amended Collaboration Pushes Agenus, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN), Incyte Corp. (NASDAQ: INCY) Shares Higher
Agenus (NASDAQ: AGEN) and Incyte (NASDAQ: INCY) are both trading higher this morning after the companies announced the amendment of an agreement signed in January, changing the ongoing GITR and OX40 antibody programs from co-funded development and profit-sharing arrangements to royalty-bearing programs. While Incyte is now responsible for funding as well as global development and commercialization, Agenus would now become eligible to receive 15 percent royalties on global net sales of each product if candidates from either of these two programs are approved. Per the amendment, Agenus will receive today accelerated milestone payments of $20 million from Incyte related to…