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Pfizer Inc. and Les Laboratoires Servier / Cellectis SA (UCART19 program)

2015 · Licensing/Option · $338M · Complete

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The coverage arc

Nov 19, 2015 FierceBiotech Bullish

Pfizer snags U.S. rights to Cellectis' 'white-hot' UCART19 CAR-T via Servier sublicense — the first major Big Pharma validation of off-the-shelf allogeneic…

Nov 20, 2015 PharmaTimes Bullish

Positive framing of the collaboration's strategic value: it 'builds on Pfizer's position in the CAR-T space and our growing portfolio of investigational…

Dec 01, 2018 Cellectis Newsroom Bullish

Phase 1 PALL/CALM trials of UCART19 showed 83% complete remission rate across adult and pediatric R/R B-ALL — first clinical proof-of-concept for an allogeneic…

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Servier exercised its exclusive worldwide option from Cellectis for UCART19, an allogeneic CD19 CAR-T, and simultaneously sublicensed US rights to Pfizer. Cellectis received $38.2M at signing plus up to $300M+ in milestones plus royalties. Pfizer's allogeneic CAR-T portfolio later transferred to Allogene Therapeutics (2018); UCART19 program retained by Servier.

Did it work? Outcome assessment

Strategic verdict
Partially Achieved
Financial impact
Neutral
Pipeline outcome
Mixed

Key facts

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