RE: Don’t keep answering3 Jul 2024 12:19
Exactly Fearg. The big opportunity for Sareum now that we are a P1 clinical company is that most license deals with big pharma happen at platform and discovery stages.
* A reminder that the average upfront payment for licencing Discovery Platform drugs in 2023, according to JP Morgan, was $47 Million and the average Preclinical licencing deal was $55 Million. The average P2 licencing deal in 2023 was much higher at over $300 million.
* Some of the licencing deals over the last 12 months, see below, have been incredible. Could SDC1801 be next now that the data is starting to be analysed?
* Akeso was paid $500 million upfront by Summit Therapeutics in 2023 to in-license ivonescimab. Additionally, the partnership outlines a potential deal value of up to USD 4.5 billion.
* Alnylam received an upfront cash payment of USD 310 million from Roche in 2023 to co-develop and co-commercialize Zilebesiran. Additional development, regulatory, and sales milestones could potentially elevate the deal value to USD 2.8 billion.
* Evotec was paid $50 Million upfront in 2023 by Bristol Myers Squibb. Tiered royalties on product sales further underscore the financial commitment, resulting in USD 4bn potential deal value.
* Kelun-Biotech was paid an upfront $175 Million by Merck in 2023 to co-develop preclinical antibody-drug conjugates. Future development, regulatory, and sales milestone payments, which could total up to USD 9.3 billion.
So, if we take JP Morgan's $47 Million - $55 Million average for a pre-clinical licencing deal in 2023 that bodes well for Sareum's SDC1801. If we move to P2 with a partnership the sums involved are even greater in the hundreds of millions....
Good luck, Brighty