Juno Therapeutics, Inc...announced today that it has acquired RedoxTherapies, Inc., a privately held company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The acquisition provides Juno with an exclusive license to vipadenant, a small molecule adenosine A2a (A2a) receptor antagonist that has the potential to disrupt important immunosuppressive pathways in the tumor microenvironment in certain cancers. Juno intends to explore this molecule in combination with its engineered T cell platform and may over time explore it in other areas as well.
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