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Bicycle Therapeutics expands Genentech immuno-oncology collaboration; receives $10M option exercise payment
BICYCLE THERAPEUTICS PLC
- Genentech exercised second option to add a new program to the existing 2020 collaboration, triggering a $10M payment to Bicycle.
- First expansion option under the same agreement was exercised in October 2021, also for $10M.
- Collaboration covers discovery and preclinical development of novel Bicycle-based immunotherapies against multiple targets.
- Bicycle's wholly owned oncology pipeline, including its immuno-oncology candidates, is not part of the collaboration.