SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blade Therapeutics, Inc. (Blade or the Company), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing cutting-edge treatments for fibrotic and neurodegenerative diseases, today announced positive preliminary data from a new preclinical study of cudetaxestat, an investigational non-competitive autotaxin inhibitor in clinical development for IPF. This preclinical study was designed to understand whether the plasma concentration of nintedanib is altered when co-administered at steady state with either cudetaxestat or GLPG-1690 (ziritaxestat).
Gilead is paying $5.1 billion (€4.5 billion) to enter into a 10-year collaboration with Galapagos. The deal gives Gilead access to all of Galapagos’ current and future programs outside of Europe.