Beam Anticipates Pfizer Deal Will Lead To Additional Partnerships

The $300m upfront payment should provide considerable runway for the base-editing company, which also plans multiple IND filings and enrolling the first patient in its sickle cell study this year.

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Just before J.P. Morgan kicked off, Beam and Pfizer announced a four-year partnership with a $300m upfront payment to the gene editing company • Source: Shutterstock

Beam Therapeutics Inc.’s potentially more than $1bn deal with Pfizer Inc. provides a significant validation for the gene-editing therapy’s base-editing technology and a long runway to develop its existing pipeline programs. And Beam is hoping there are more deals like it to come.

The companies announced on 10 January, just before the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference kicked off, a partnership centered on three...

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