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Japan – Eisai Enters Into Exclusive Licensing Agreement with Roivant Concerning Investigational Anticancer Agent H3B-8800, a Splicing Modulator
Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that it has entered into a License Agreement granting the exclusive rights for global research, development, manufacture and sale of the investigational anticancer agent H3B-8800 to a subsidiary of Roivant Sciences Ltd. (Nasdaq: ROIV). H3B-8800 (Roivant’s Development Code: RVT-2001) is a splicing modulator compound, discovered by Eisai’s U.S. research subsidiary H3 Biomedicine Inc., which is undergoing development as an investigational anticancer agent. H3B-8800 is an orally available small molecule modulator of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1), discovered by H3 Biomedicine Inc. Splicing occurs to remove introns that are base sequence of pre-messenger RNA (mRNA), ... Read more