Ionis Sells Kynamro To Kastle After Regaining Rights From Genzyme
Executive Summary
Three and a half months after Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. surprised investors with the news that Sanofi's Genzyme business unit would no longer market Kynamro (mipomersen) for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), the Carlsbad, California-based biotechnology company revealed that it sold global rights to the cholesterol-lowering drug to Kastle Therapeutics LLC for up to $95m.
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