AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATION AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
This AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATION AND LICENSE AGREEMENT (the “Amendment No. 1”) is entered into as of this 31 day of March 2015 (the “Amendment No. 1 Effective Date”) by and between Fondazione Telethon (“Telethon”) and Ospedale San Raffaele (“OSR”) (successor in interest to Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor), on the one side and GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property Development Limited (“GSK”) (an Affiliate of Glaxo Group Limited (“GGL”) and assignee of GGL’s rights under the Collaboration Agreement (defined below)). This Amendment No. 1 amends that certain Research and Development Collaboration and License Agreement (the “Collaboration Agreement”) entered into on October 15, 2010 between GGL, Telethon and Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Collaboration Agreement. Each of GSK, Telethon, and OSR may be referred to herein as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parties.” Telethon and OSR may be referred to herein collectively as “Telethon-HSR”.
WHEREAS, the Parties are collaborating on several Collaboration Programs forex vivohematopoietic stem cell gene therapy of monogenic diseases, including a Collaboration Program in Beta-thalassemia (the “Beta-Thal Program”);
WHEREAS,Telethon-HSR is responsible for the conduct of Research and Development activities as set forth in the Development Plan for the Beta-Thal Program up through and including completion of the Proof of Concept Study;
WHEREAS, GSK has an exclusive option right to exclusivelyin-license the Beta-Thal Program;
WHEREAS, the Parties have agreed to make certain modifications to the Development Plan for the Beta-Thal Program, including modifying the Development Plan to include up to [***] patients to the Beta-Thal Program protocol for the first [***] clinical study as briefly summarized in the attached Exhibit D;
WHEREASTelethon-HSR has developed in the course of preclinical studies [***], here after referred to as “[***]”, and has filed a patent application on such [***] (namely the [***], together with -without limitation- any patents issuing therefrom, any patent applications and/or issued patents claiming priority thereto, and any reissues,re-examinations, divisionals, continuations, and continuations in part arising therefrom in any jurisdiction, shall be referred to hereinafter as the “[***]”).
WHEREAS the Parties agreed to activate an improvement project referred to as the “[***]” as defined in Section 2 in this Amendment No. 1, to include up to [***] additional patients.
WHEREAS, the Parties have further agreed that GSK will pay an access fee of [***] to activate the [***], as expressly set forth in this Amendment No. 1;
WHEREAS, the Parties have previously entered into several side letter agreements related to theADA-SCID Program and to other Collaboration Programs under the Collaboration Agreement and now also desire to include all such side letters by reference into this Amendment No. 1 to ensure that each of such side letter agreements are captured as amendments to the Collaboration Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Parties now desire to enter into this Amendment No. 1 to capture their agreement with respect to the above referenced subject matters, on the terms and conditions as set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
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