Celleron enters into a license agreement with Roche to improve the lives of patients living with tenosynovial giant cell tumour

Celleron Therapeutics, the UK-based company developing novel medicines for cancer patients, announced the signing of a licensing agreement with Roche providing Celleron exclusive world-wide rights for the clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization of emactuzumab. The closing is expected by end of 2020 after all conditions have been met.

This license agreement of emactuzumab demonstrates Celleron’s commitment to cancer medicine development and its transformational potential for patients inflicted with cancer. Emactuzumab is a monoclonal antibody designed to target and deplete macrophages in the tumor tissue. It has shown a favourable safety profile in patients and very encouraging efficacy for diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumour (TGCT), a rare disease characterised by the proliferation of macrophages in the synovial tissue in the joint and tendon sheath.

Professor Nick La Thangue, Chief Executive Officer of Celleron Therapeutics, commented: “We are very excited to be working on emactuzumab. Celleron’s commitment to developing transformative and novel therapies will ultimately allow emactuzumab to be brought to patients suffering from TGCT, which remains a very debilitating disease with limited clinical options.”