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Incyte Corporation / Calithera Biosciences, Inc.

2017 · Licensing/Option · $803M · Terminated

Outcome grade pending — assessed 5 years post-close.

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Jan 30, 2017 BioSpace Bullish

Reported Calithera shares spiked on the deal announcement, characterizing it as transformational financing and external validation of the arginase mechanism.

Apr 14, 2020 Calithera (GlobeNewswire) Bearish

Calithera announced it would opt out of the INCB001158 co-development obligations and refocus on internal programs, signaling internal deprioritization of the…

Sep 30, 2020 Seeking Alpha Bearish

Reported Calithera's termination of the 2017 collaboration effective September 30, 2020 amid a milestone-payment dispute, with Incyte taking over full global…

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Incyte and Calithera entered a global collaboration and license agreement for CB-1158, a first-in-class oral small-molecule arginase inhibitor. Calithera received $53M upfront ($45M cash + $8M equity), plus up to $750M in development, regulatory and sales milestones; 70/30 global development cost split (Incyte/Calithera) with 60/40 U.S. profit share. Strategic intent: combine with anti-PD-1 to overcome arginine-mediated immunosuppression.

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