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Holly Williams

AstraZeneca invests £1.5bn into US firm Summit for cancer drug tie-up

Each group will retain development and commercial rights to their respective medicines under the agreement, they said (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Archive)

Drug giant AstraZeneca has invested two billion US dollars (£1.5 billion) in US pharmaceutical firm Summit Therapeutics as part of a cancer treatment research joint venture.

London-listed Astra’s equity investment will help speed up development of Summit’s experimental drug, called ivonescimab, which aims to attack cancer cells and stop them growing by targeting specific proteins.

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