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Gilead to Pay $1.3B for Oral Peptide That Could Rival J&J’s New Immunology Pill

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Gilead to Pay $1.3B for Oral Peptide That Could Rival J&J’s New Immunology Pill

Gilead Sciences is getting global rights to an experimental PepStar Therapeutics oral peptide designed to inhibit the IL-23 receptor to treat inflammatory bowel disease. It could compete against Johnson & Johnson’s Icotyde, an oral peptide that blocks the same target and is also in development for IBD.



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