Ropes & Gray Advises Novo Nordisk in Collaboration with IMMvention Therapeutix to Co-Develop Oral Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease

In The News
January 23, 2025

Ropes & Gray represented Novo Nordisk in a strategic collaboration and license agreement with IMMvention Therapeutic to develop oral therapies for sickle cell disease and other chronic conditions. The collaboration was announced on January 22. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The companies will jointly advance IMMvention’s portfolio of preclinical BACH1 inhibitors to candidate nomination, after which Novo Nordisk will be responsible for clinical development, regulatory submissions and commercialization worldwide. Novo Nordisk has an exclusive worldwide license to IMMvention’s BACH1 program.

The Ropes & Gray team included life sciences licensing partner Hannah England and life sciences licensing associate Shuang Ci.