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– Company licenses exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize targeted, highly specific immunosuppressive therapeutic proteins for the potential treatment of
neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
– Initial step in growth strategy to build-out pipeline of assets
– Aeterna Zentaris to develop potential therapeutic treatment option for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (“NMOSD”), an orphan indication with strong unmet medical need and significant market opportunity
CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZS), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Aeterna Zentaris GmbH, (“Aeterna” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company commercializing and developing therapeutics and diagnostic tests, today announced that it has licensed the exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize targeted, highly specific, autoimmunity modifying proteins (“AIM Biologicals”) for the potential treatment of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (“NMOSD”) from the Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg (the “University”).