Roche Buys IL-2 Technology From Good, Which Forms New Firm Bonum
Executive Summary
Roche is paying $250m up front to buy Good Therapeutics, which will launch a new company, Bonum Therapeutics, to explore its platform technology for targets other than interleukin-2.
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