


In 2021, XOMA purchased a proportion of the potential future pre-commercial milestone payments and all the potential royalties due under the 2015 license agreement between Kuros and Checkmate Pharmaceuticals under a royalty purchase agreement.
#Regeneron checkmate trial#
Checkmate is conducting multiple clinical trials, including a phase 2 and a phase 2/3 trial in the melanoma indication, which triggered two milestone payments of $2 million and $4 million by Checkmate to Kuros in 2021. Under the 2015 licensing agreement with Kuros, Checkmate is investigating vidutolimod (CMP-001), an advanced generation Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist, delivered as a biologic virus-like particle utilizing a CpG-A oligodeoxynucleotide as a key component, across multiple tumor types in combination with several checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapies. Therefore, $2.5 million of the $5 million milestone due to Kuros under the 2015 license agreement will be paid to XOMA. Under a royalty purchase agreement entered into by Kuros and XOMA Corporation (NASDAQ: XOMA) in 2021, XOMA is entitled to receive 50% of the milestone payment paid to Kuros as a result of a change of control of Checkmate Pharmaceuticals.
