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Jacob Mekhael

Galapagos Separating into 2 public entities

Galapagos announced a planned separation into two entities: a newly to be formed company (SpinCo), which would focus on building a pipeline of innovative medicines through transformational transactions, and Galapagos, which would continue to advance its global cell therapy program. We believe this separation is a good step that will allow Galapagos to have a more focussed strategy slowly based on cell therapy/oncology, while freeing the company from the options agreement with Gilead, and this new set up combined with € 2.45bn in cash going into the new SpinCo could accelerate the slow pace of BD in recent years.
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Galapagos NV

Galapagos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company specialized in the discovery and development of small molecule medicines with novel modes of action, addressing disease areas of high unmet medical need. Execution on its proprietary drug target discovery platform has delivered a pipeline that consists of three Phase 2, three Phase 1, five pre-clinical, and 20 discovery programs in inflammation, cystic fibrosis, or CF, osteoarthritis, and other indications. Co.'s highly flexible platform offers applicability across a broad set of therapeutic areas. Co.'s programs include filgotinib, GLPG1837, GLPG1690, GLPG2222, GLPG1972.

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Jacob Mekhael

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