Our fibrosis collaborations

We have a global collaboration with Fibrocor focused on fibrosis. The collaboration was first announced in January 2019 on a novel target in IPF and expanded a year later with four additional novel target programs. Fibrocor is responsible for all research activity until lead optimization and we are responsible for the further development and commercialization of the in-licensed programs. Galapagos took an undisclosed equity stake in Fibrocor (privately held).

An exclusive collaboration and license agreement for the global development and commercialization of GLPG4716 was announced in November 2020 with OncoArendi Therapeutics. Under the terms of the agreement, we are responsible for the further development and commercialization of the program. In addition, we receive the option to initiate negotiations to obtain development or commercialization rights for selected preclinical candidate molecules.