Regeneron Details Royalty Agreement with Novartis for Canakinumab (ACZ885)

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today provided details of the royalty it receives on any sales of canakinumab (ACZ885), an anti-IL1β antibody. Under a 2009 agreement with Novartis, Regeneron receives a royalty on worldwide net sales of canakinumab; the royalty rate starts at 4 percent and reaches 15 percent when canakinumab annual sales exceed $1.5 billion. The royalty applies to currently approved indications for Ilaris^®, and any potential sales for future indications, including related to the positive Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study (CANTOS) results announced by Novartis earlier today.   

Regeneron has not reviewed the CANTOS data and cannot predict whether the study will result in new indications or sales in the future. Regeneron is not involved in the development and regulatory process for canakinumab.

About Regeneron

Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that invents life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led by physician-scientists for nearly 30 years, our unique ability to repeatedly translate science into medicine has led to six FDA-approved treatments and over a dozen product candidates, all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye disease, heart disease, allergic and inflammatory diseases, pain, cancer, and infectious and rare diseases.

Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through its proprietary VelociSuite^® technologies, including VelocImmune^® which yields optimized fully-human antibodies, and ambitious initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.

For additional information about the company, please visit www.regeneron.com or follow @Regeneron on Twitter.

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