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Ipsen has announced the immediate withdrawal of its cancer drug Tazverik across all indications after serious safety issues emerged in an ongoing Phase III trial.

Pharma giant Ipsen will pay US$1bn to acquire French immuno-oncology firm ImCheck Therapeutics SAS. The deal includes US$350m upfront and up to US$650m in milestone payments. ImCheck focuses on butyrophilins, a new class of immune regulators, through its antibody programme ICT01, currently in Phase I trials.

French Ipsen has exclusively licensed BMX-502, a T-cell engager (TCE) from Biommunex SA, which prevents common problems of TCEs such as cytokine release syndrome and T cell exhaustion by using a specific mucosal T cell subpopulation abundant in the human body.