Merck and Orion Announce Mutual Exercise of Option Providing Merck Global Exclusive Rights to Opevesostat for the Treatment of Metastatic CRPC
“The conversion of this collaboration into a license agreement allows Orion to focus our resources to progress our other promising development candidates while both remaining well positioned to benefit from the development and potential commercialization of opevesostat and meeting our financial objectives,” said Liisa Hurme, president and chief executive officer, Orion Corporation. “We believe Merck provides the best choice to maximize the potential of opevesostat, a compound discovered by Orion’s scientists, for the treatment of patients with certain types of prostate cancer.”
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