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Ipsen to Buy Clementia for $1.3B

Acquisition is part of a strategic objective to accelerate rare disease pipeline

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Ipsen and Clementia Pharmaceuticals have entered into an agreement for Ipsen to acquire Clementia for $1.31 billion. The purchase includes Clementia’s key late-stage clinical asset palovarotene, an investigational retinoic acid receptor gamma (RARγ) selective agonist, for the treatment of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), multiple osteochondromas (MO) and other diseases.   A New Drug Application (NDA) for palovarotene for episodic flare-up treatment of FOP is expected to be submitte...

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