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Merck & Co. Inc. / Proxygen GmbH

2023 · Licensing/Option · $2.5B · Complete

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Jun 01, 2022 Proxygen / Merck KGaA (BusinessWire, 2022-06-01) Neutral

Proxygen's separate 2022 strategic collaboration with Merck KGaA (up to EUR495M / ~$554M) - a DIFFERENT company from Merck & Co/MSD. Documented to disambiguate…

Apr 05, 2023 Proxygen Press Release Bullish

Proxygen will receive an upfront payment and be eligible for future payments of up to $2.55 billion.

Apr 28, 2026 Proxygen Chronicle (company IR timeline) Bullish

Proxygen's own milestone timeline. Confirms the April 2023 MSD deal is the only Merck & Co agreement (no post-2023 MSD expansion) and records platform…

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Merck entered a multi-year collaboration with Proxygen to discover and develop novel molecular glue degraders against multiple therapeutic targets.

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