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EDITFORCE AND MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA ENTER INTO LICENSE AGREEMENT
EDITFORCE AND MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA ENTER INTO
LICENSE AGREEMENT
June 27, 2022
EditForce, Inc. (Headquarters: Fukuoka, President and CEO: Takashi Ono; hereinafter
“EditForce”) has entered into a License Agreement (hereinafter “Agreement”) with
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (Headquarters: Osaka, Representative Director,
Hiroaki Ueno; hereinafter “MTPC”) to research, develop and commercialize potential gene
therapy products for a specific target disease in the field of CNS by utilizing EditForce’s
proprietary PPR protein platform technology.
In this alliance, MTPC and EditForce aim to create potential novel pharmaceuticals for the
specific CNS disease by utilizing the drug R&D know-how and global business experience
of MTPC and the novel biotechnology of EditForce. MTPC will acquire the exclusive right
to conduct the selection of drug candidate molecules, preclinical and clinical development,
manufacturing, and commercialization worldwide.
Under the terms of theAgreement, EditForce will receive an upfront payment and milestone
payments amounting to over ¥20 billion depending on the development stage and
commercialization progress, and royalties based on the worldwide sales after the launch.
“I am so delighted to reach the agreement with MTPC, which has an interest in our
proprietary PPR protein platform technology,” said Takashi Ono, President and CEO of
EditForce. “We look forward to working closely with MTPC to develop and deliver
breakthrough pharmaceutical products with our technology to patients suffering from
diseases.”
EditForce will proceed with R&D of pharmaceuticals using our PPR protein platform
technology.