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Ionis enters exclusive licensing agreement with Bicycle Therapeutics aimed at further advancing LICA technology
"One of our key strategic objectives is to expand our drug discovery capabilities. The agreement with
"Our collaboration with Bicycle will accelerate Ionis' progress toward creating best-in-class, low molecular weight ligands for muscle-specific targeted delivery," said
Under terms of the agreement, Ionis obtained an exclusive license to Bicycle's technology covering the entire class of transferrin receptor 1 Bicycles for use in targeted delivery of oligonucleotide drugs. Ionis made a
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