Teper said Immune’s “number one asset” is bertilimumab, designed to block the infl ammatory protein eotaxin-1, enrolling patients in two phase II trials, one for ulcerative colitis and another in bullous pemphigoid. A third phase II program in atopic dermatitis (AD) is planned for later this year. Summit, N.J.-based Celgene Corp. recently put $7.2 billion on the table for Receptos Inc., of San Diego, to add the highly touted late-stage S1P modulator ozanimod to its immunology and infl ammatory franchise. “We’re not saying we’ll be taken out,” he said, but bertilimumab “could be partnered with big pharma or big biotech in the next year or next year and a half.”
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