Significant Agreements | 10. Significant Agreements GSK Collaboration, Option and License Agreement In June 2020, the Company entered into the Collaboration, Option and License Agreement (the “GSK Collaboration Agreement”), with an affiliate of GSK plc, GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (NO. 4) LIMITED (“GSK”), pursuant to which the Company and GSK have entered into a collaboration for its synthetic lethality programs targeting MAT2A, Pol Theta and Werner Helicase (“WRN”). On July 27, 2020, the Company and GSK received Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act clearance, and the GSK Collaboration Agreement became effective. Pursuant to the GSK Collaboration Agreement, GSK paid the Company $ 100.0 million on July 31, 2020. As of September 30, 2024 , GSK has made aggregate payments in the amount of $ 13.0 million for the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones with respect to Pol Theta and WRN products. GSK Collaboration - Pol Theta Program Pursuant to the GSK Collaboration Agreement, GSK holds a global, exclusive license to develop and commercialize Pol Theta products arising out of the Pol Theta program. The Company and GSK collaborated on preclinical research for the Pol Theta program, and GSK is leading clinical development for the Pol Theta program. GSK is responsible for all research and development costs for the Pol Theta program. The Company will be eligible to receive total development and regulatory milestones of up to $ 485.0 million, with respect to each Pol Theta product, including as applicable, for multiple Pol Theta products that target certain alternative protein domains or are based on alternative modalities. Additionally, the Company will be eligible to receive up to $ 475.0 million of commercial milestones with respect to each Pol Theta product. The Company is also entitled to receive tiered royalties on global net sales of Pol Theta products by GSK, its affiliates and their sublicensees ranging from high single digit to sub-teen double-digit percentages, subject to certain customary reductions. In June 2022, the Company announced the nomination of a Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor development candidate (“DC”), and in August 2022, the Company announced the achievement of an initial preclinical development milestone in connection with ongoing investigational new drug (“IND”)-enabling studies to support evaluation of Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor DC, triggering a $ 3.0 million milestone payment, which the Company received in October 2022. An IND was submitted and was cleared by the FDA in August 2023 to enable clinical evaluation in combination with niraparib, triggering a $ 7.0 million milestone payment. The Company has the potential to achieve an additional $ 10.0 million development milestone upon initiation of Phase 1 clinical dose expansion, as well as potential further aggregate late-stage development and regulatory milestones of up to $ 465.0 million. GSK Collaboration - Werner Helicase Program Pursuant to the GSK Collaboration Agreement, GSK holds a global, exclusive license to develop and commercialize WRN products arising out of the WRN program. The Company and GSK are collaborating on ongoing preclinical research for the WRN program, and GSK will lead clinical development for the WRN program, with the Company responsible for 20 % and GSK responsible for 80 % of such global research and development costs. The cost-sharing percentages will be adjusted based on the actual ratio of U.S. to global profits for WRN products, as measured three and six years after global commercial launch thereof. The Company will be eligible to receive total development milestones of up to $ 485.0 million, with respect to each WRN product, including as applicable, for multiple WRN products that are based on alternative modalities. Additionally, the Company will be eligible to receive up to $ 475.0 million of commercial milestones with respect to each WRN product. The Company will be entitled to receive 50 % of U.S. net profits and tiered royalties on global non-U.S. net sales of WRN products by GSK, its affiliates and their sublicensees ranging from high single digit to sub-teen double-digit percentages, subject to certain customary reductions. The Company will have a right to opt-out of the 50 % U.S. net profit share and corresponding research and development cost share for the WRN program, and would be eligible to receive tiered royalties on U.S. net sales of WRN products by GSK, its affiliates and their sublicensees at the same royalty rates as for global non-U.S. net sales thereafter, with economic adjustments based on the stage of the WRN program at the time of opt-out. In October 2023, the Company earned a $ 3.0 million milestone from GSK in connection with IND-enabling studies for the Werner Helicase Inhibitor DC. The Company has the potential to earn up to an additional $ 17.0 million aggregate milestone payments through early Phase 1 clinical studies, including $ 7.0 million upon IND clearance. The Company is also eligible to receive additional future aggregate total development milestones of up to $ 465.0 million. GSK Collaboration – General Under the terms of the GSK Collaboration Agreement, subject to certain exceptions, the Company and GSK will not, directly or through third parties, develop or commercialize other products whose primary and intended mechanism of action is the modulation of WRN or Pol Theta for an agreed upon period of time. The Company and GSK have formed a joint steering committee, joint development committees, and joint commercialization committees responsible for coordinating all activities under the GSK Collaboration Agreement. Ownership of intellectual property developed under the GSK Collaboration Agreement is allocated between or shared by the parties depending on development and subject matter. GSK’s royalty obligations continue with respect to each country and each product until the later of (i) the date on which such product is no longer covered by certain intellectual property rights in such country and (ii) the 10 th anniversary of the first commercial sale of such product in such country. Each party has the right to sublicense its rights under the GSK Collaboration Agreement subject to certain conditions. The GSK Collaboration Agreement will continue in effect on a product-by-product and country-by-country basis until the expiration of the obligation to make payments under the GSK Collaboration Agreement with respect to such product in each country, unless earlier terminated by either party pursuant to its terms. Either party may terminate the GSK Collaboration Agreement for the other party’s insolvency or certain uncured breaches. The Company may terminate the GSK Collaboration Agreement if GSK or any of its sublicensees or affiliates challenge certain patents of the Company. GSK may terminate the GSK Collaboration Agreement in its entirety or on a target-by-target basis upon 90-day notice to the Company. Novartis License Agreement In September 2018, the Company entered into a license agreement with Novartis to develop and commercialize Novartis’ LXS196 (also known as IDE196), a Phase 1 PKC inhibitor, for the treatment of cancers having GNAQ and GNA11 mutations. The Company renamed Novartis’ LXS196 oncology as IDE196, and which has a non-proprietary name of darovasertib. Under the license agreement, Novartis granted to the Company a worldwide, exclusive, sublicensable license to research, develop, manufacture, and commercialize certain defined compounds and products, including IDE196 and certain other PKC inhibitors as well as companion diagnostic products, collectively referred to as the licensed products, for any purpose. The Company paid Novartis an upfront payment of $ 2.5 million and issued 263,615 shares of its Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock concurrently with the execution of the license agreement. Subject to completion of certain clinical and regulatory development milestones, the Company agreed to make milestone payments in the aggregate of up to $ 9.0 million, and subject to achievement of certain commercial sales milestones, the Company agreed to make milestone payments in the aggregate of up to $ 20.0 million. The Company also agreed to pay mid to high single-digit tiered royalty payments based on annual worldwide net sales of licensed products, payable on a licensed product-by-licensed product and country by country basis until the latest of the expiration of the last to expire exclusively licensed patent, the expiration of regulatory exclusivity, and the ten year anniversary of the first commercial sale of such product in such country. The royalty payments are subject to reductions for lack of patent coverage, loss of market exclusivity, and payment obligations for third-party licenses. Pfizer Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreements In March 2020, the Company entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Pfizer, Inc. (as amended in September 2020, April 2021, September 2021 and May 2023, the “Pfizer Agreement”). Pursuant to the Pfizer Agreement, Pfizer supplies the Company with their MEK inhibitor, binimetinib, and their cMET inhibitor, crizotinib, to evaluate combinations of darovasertib independently with each of the Pfizer compounds, in patients with tumors harboring activating GNAQ or GNA11 mutations. Under the Pfizer Agreement, the Company is the sponsor of the combination studies and will provide darovasertib and pay for the costs of the combination studies. Pfizer will provide binimetinib and crizotinib for use in the clinical trial at no cost to the Company. The Pfizer Agreement provides that the Company and Pfizer will jointly own clinical data generated from the clinical trial and will also jointly own inventions, if any, relating to the combined use of darovasertib and binimetinib, or independently, to the combined use of darovasertib and crizotinib. The Company and Pfizer have formed a joint development committee responsible for coordinating all regulatory and other activities under the agreement. In March 2022, the Company and Pfizer entered into a second clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement (as amended in May 2023, the “Second Pfizer Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company is evaluating darovasertib and crizotinib as a combination therapy in MUM in a planned Phase 2/3 potential registration-enabling clinical trial. Pursuant to the Second Pfizer Agreement, the Company is the sponsor of the combination trial and the Company will provide darovasertib and pay for the costs of the combination trial; Pfizer will provide crizotinib for the planned combination trial at no cost to the Company for up to an agreed-upon number of MUM patients. The Company and Pfizer will jointly own clinical data from the planned combination trial and all inventions relating to the combined use of darovasertib and crizotinib. The Company and Pfizer have formed a joint development committee responsible for coordinating all regulatory and other activities under the Second Pfizer Agreement. Separately, in March 2022, the Company and Pfizer also entered into a third clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement (the “Third Pfizer Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company could, subject to preclinical validation and FDA feedback and guidance, evaluate darovasertib and crizotinib, as a combination therapy in cMET-driven tumors such as NSCLC and/or HCC in a Phase 1 clinical trial. Pursuant to the Third Pfizer Agreement, the Company was the sponsor of the planned combination trial, and the Company would provide darovasertib and pay for the costs of the combination trial; Pfizer would provide crizotinib for the planned combination trial at no cost to the Company. Pursuant to Amendment No. 1 to the Second Pfizer Agreement, as described below, the Company and Pfizer terminated the Third Pfizer Agreement. In May 2023, the Company continued its relationship with Pfizer by entering into Amendment No. 4 to the Pfizer Agreement relating to the supply of crizotinib in support of this Phase 2 clinical trial, pursuant to which Pfizer will continue to provide the Company with an additional defined quantity of crizotinib at no cost. The Company also expanded its relationship with Pfizer in May 2023 under an Amendment No. 1 to the Second Pfizer Agreement to support the Phase 2/3 registrational trial to evaluate darovasertib and crizotinib as a combination therapy in MUM. Under the as-amended Second Pfizer Agreement, Pfizer will provide the Company with a first defined quantity of crizotinib at no cost, as well as an additional second defined quantity of crizotinib at a lump-sum cost. Under Amendment No. 1 to the Second Pfizer Agreement, the Company and Pfizer also terminated the Third Pfizer Agreement. Cancer Research UK and University of Manchester Exclusive Option and License Agreement In January 2022, the Company exercised its option for an exclusive worldwide license covering a broad class of PARG inhibitors from Cancer Research Technology Ltd. (“CRT”) and the University of Manchester, and in connection therewith, paid a one-time option exercise fee of £ 250,000 . The Company will be obligated to make payments to CRT aggregating up to a total of £ 19.5 million upon the achievement of specific development and regulatory approval events for development of a PARG inhibitor in oncologic diseases. The Company will also pay low single-digit tiered royalties, and potentially also sales-based milestones, to CRT based on net sales of licensed products. In addition, in the event the Company sublicenses the intellectual property, it will also be obligated to pay CRT a specified percentage of any sublicense revenue. In April 2023, the Company incurred an obligation to pay milestone payments in an aggregate amount of £ 750,000 to CRT based upon the achievement of certain milestones relating to first and second tumor histologies in connection with the Phase 1 portion of the Phase 1/2 clinical trial in oncologic diseases. The Company will be obligated to make additional payments to CRT aggregating up to £ 18.75 million upon the achievement of specific development and regulatory approval events for development of a PARG inhibitor in oncologic diseases, including an aggregate of up to £ 1.5 million and up to £ 2.25 for the achievement of certain Phase 2 and Phase 3 development milestones, respectively, in each case as relating to first and second tumor histologies. Amgen Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement In July 2022, the Company entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Amgen Inc. (the “Amgen CTCSA”), to clinically evaluate IDE397 in combination with AMG 193, the Amgen investigational MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor, in patients having MTAP-null solid tumors, in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial. Under the mutually non-exclusive Amgen CTCSA, the Company will provide IDE397 drug supply to Amgen, who will be the sponsor of the Phase 1 clinical combination trial evaluating IDE397 and AMG 193. Each party will pay for fifty percent ( 50 %) of the external third-party costs of the combination study. Each party will be responsible for its own internal costs and expenses in support of the combination study. The Company and Amgen will jointly oversee clinical development of the combination therapy through a Joint Oversight Committee responsible for coordinating all regulatory and other activities under the Amgen CTCSA. The parties will jointly own collaboration data and combination-related intellectual property, if any, arising from the combination clinical trial. The Company and Amgen each retain commercial rights to its respective compounds, including with respect to use as a monotherapy agent or combination agent. Gilead Clinical Study Collaboration and Supply Agreement In November 2023, the Company entered into a clinical study collaboration and supply agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (“Gilead”) (the “Gilead CSCSA”), to clinically evaluate IDE397 in combination with Trodelvy (sacacituzumab-govitecan-hziy), a Trop-2 directed ADC, in patients having MTAP-deletion urothelial cancer, in a Phase 1 clinical trial. Under the mutually non-exclusive Gilead CSCSA, the Company will receive Trodelvy drug supply from Gilead and will sponsor the Phase 1 clinical combination trial evaluating ID397 and Trodelvy. Gilead will bear internal or external costs incurred in connection with its supply of Trodelvy. The Company will bear all internal and external costs and expenses associated with the conduct of the combination study. The Company and Gilead will jointly oversee clinical development of the combination therapy through a Joint Steering Committee responsible for coordinating all regulatory and other activities under the Gilead CSCSA. The Company and Gilead each retain commercial rights to its respective compounds, including with respect to use as a monotherapy agent or combination agent. Merck Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement In March 2024, the Company entered into a Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement (the “Merck CTCSA”), with Merck (known as MSD outside of the US and Canada) to evaluate the combination of IDE161 with Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, KEYTRUDA ® (pembrolizumab), in patients with microsatellite instability (“MSI”)-high and MSS endometrial cancer. Pursuant to the Merck CTCSA, the Company is the sponsor of the combination study, and the Company will provide the IDE161 compound and pay for the costs of the combination study. Merck will provide KEYTRUDA at no cost to the Company. The Company and Merck will jointly own clinical data from the combination. Each party retains commercial rights to its respective compounds, including with respect to use as a monotherapy or combination agent. Biocytogen Option and License Agreement In July 2024, the Company entered into an option and license agreement for a potential first-in-class B7H3/PTK7 topoisomerase-I-inhibitor-payload BsADC program with Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“Biocytogen”). The agreement grants the Company an option for an exclusive worldwide license from Biocytogen for a potential first-in-class B7H3/PTK7 topoisomerase-I-inhibitor-payload BsADC program (the “Option”). Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will pay Biocytogen an upfront fee and, upon the Company’s potential exercise of the Option, an exercise fee totaling up to $ 6.5 million. The Option is exercisable by the Company within a specified time period after the Company obtains all data and results from certain non-GLP toxicology studies specified in the Agreement, which the Company will conduct at its own cost. Subject to the Company’s exercise of the Option, Biocytogen will be eligible to receive an option exercise fee, development and regulatory milestone payments and commercial milestone payments, as well as low to mid single-digit royalties on net sales. Total potential milestone payments equal an aggregate of $ 400.0 million, including development and regulatory milestone payments of up to $ 100.0 million. |