On November 16, 2020, the Company announced that it had entered into the Novo Amendment related to the development and commercialization of macimorelin. Novo is currently marketing macimorelin in the U.S. under the trade name Macrilen™ for the diagnosis of AGHD. Aeterna, in collaboration with Novo, is currently developing the expanded use of macimorelin for the diagnosis of CGHD, an area of significant unmet medical need.
On December 7, 2020, the Company entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Consilient Health Limited (“CH” or “Consilient”) for the commercialization of macimorelin in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. In December 2021, the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom approved a list price which triggered a $226 (€0.2 million) pricing milestone payment from CH to the Company. In Germany, a list price was approved on June 15, 2022 which triggered a second $226 (€0.2 million) pricing milestone payment from CH to the Company. We shipped initial batches of macimorelin (Ghryvelin®) to Consilient in the first quarter of 2022. Consilient launched the product in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark in May 2022 and launches in Germany and Finland are scheduled for July 2022.
We entered into license and supply agreements with NK Meditech Ltd. (“NK”), a subsidiary of PharmBio Korea, effective November 30, 2021, and a distribution and commercialization agreement with ER Kim Pharmaceuticals Bulgaria Food (“ER-Kim”), effective February 1, 2022. The agreements with NK are related to the development and commercialization of macimorelin for the diagnosis of AGHD and CGHD in the Republic of Korea, while the agreement with ER-Kim is related to the commercialization of macimorelin for the diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency in children and adults in Turkey and some non-European Union Balkan countries.
On April 19, 2022, we announced that European Patent Office had issued a patent providing intellectual property protection of macimorelin in 27 countries within the European Union as well as additional European non-EU countries, such as the UK and Turkey, for macimorelin (Ghryvelin®; Macrilen™) for use to diagnose GHD in adults.
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