AstraZeneca Puts Bicycles To Work In Multitarget Deal
Executive Summary
AstraZeneca has entered a broad early stage collaboration with Bicycle Therapeutics to discover and develop bicyclic peptides (Bicycles). If all aspects of the multitarget deal reach fruition, the deal could be worth up to £1bn for the small biotech company.
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