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Arrowhead forms JV with Vivo Capital for Greater China; licenses four RNAi cardiometabolic drugs
ARROWHEAD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
- Vivo Capital provided $60M initial funding to Visirna Therapeutics, JV in which Arrowhead holds majority stake.
- Visirna gets exclusive rights to develop and commercialize four investigational RNAi therapeutics in Greater China.
- Arrowhead eligible to receive royalties on net commercial sales in the licensed territory.
- Vivo Capital's Hongbo Lu and Gaurav Aggarwal to join Visirna board; Arrowhead also appoints board members.
- Visirna to be headquartered in Shanghai; recruitment of management and staff underway.