UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED RESEARCH, COLLABORATION & LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Second Amended and Restated Research, Collaboration & License Agreement (this “Agreement”) is effective as of July 31, 2024 (the “Second Restatement Date”) by and between The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation (“Penn”), and Passage Bio, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware (“Licensee”). Penn and Licensee may be referred to herein as a “Party” or, collectively, as “Parties”.
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, Licensee and Penn entered into an original Research, Collaboration & License Agreement on September 18, 2018 (the “Original Effective Date”) (as amended prior to May 5, 2020, the “Original Agreement”), which was restated on May 5, 2020 (the “First Restatement Date”), and which subsequently was amended on August 13, 2020, November 2, 2020, December 9, 2020, June 2, 2021, August 3, 2021, November 12, 2021, December 3, 2021, on May 11, 2022, and on November 15, 2023 (collectively, the “First ARCA”);
WHEREAS, Licensee is a biopharmaceutical company with expertise in the development, manufacture and commercialization of human therapeutic products for treatment of genetic disorders.
WHEREAS, Penn, through Dr. James M. Wilson and the Wilson Laboratory, have technology and expertise in the research and development of gene therapy products.
WHEREAS, the programs contemplated by this Agreement are of mutual interest to Licensee and Penn and furthers the educational, scholarship and research objectives of Penn as a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational Penn, and may benefit Licensee and Penn through the creation or discovery of new inventions and the development and commercialization of Licensed Products (as defined below).
WHEREAS, in connection with such First ARCA, Penn, through the Wilson Laboratory, has developed Licensed Products on behalf of Licensee.
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, Penn is entering into a business transaction with Gemma Biotherapeutics, Inc. (“Gemma”) pursuant to which, inter alia, upon closing, certain assets of the Wilson Laboratory (as defined below) will transfer from Penn to Gemma, Dr. James M. Wilson will become unavailable to oversee the performance of the outstanding Research Programs and the Wilson Laboratory will no longer exist at Penn (such transaction, the “Gemma Transaction”).
WHEREAS, in connection with the Gemma Transaction, Penn and Gemma are entering into that certain license agreement of even date herewith, pursuant to which, inter alia, Penn and Gemma may enter into a second license agreement (collectively, the “Gemma License”).
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, Licensee and Gemma are entering into (a) that certain Exclusive License Agreement, pursuant to which Licensee will grant to Gemma a license under certain intellectual property rights relating to the development, manufacture and commercialization of certain products for GLB1 Deficiency, for GM1 gangliosidosis-1 and MPS IV, (b) that certain Exclusive License Agreement, pursuant to which Licensee will grant to Gemma a license under certain intellectual property rights relating to the development, manufacture and commercialization of certain products for Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy), and (c) that certain Exclusive License