Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Cadila up 4% on sub-licensing agmt with UN health organisation

Cadila Healthcare shares gained 4 percent after its group company entered into a sub-licensing agreement with The Medicines Patent Pool for hepatitis C medicine, daclatasvir. "Zydus Cadila has signed a non-exclusive, royalty free agreement with the The Medicines Patent Pool for the generic production of Bristol-Myers Squibb's daclatasvir," says the Ahmedabad-based pharma company in its filing. Daclatasvir, a direct-acting antiviral, is proven to help cure multiple genotyes of the hepatitis C virus. The agreement sub-licences Zydus to produce and sell daclatasvir in 112 low and middle income countries. The Medicines Patent Pool is a United Nations-backed public health organisation working to increase access to HIV, viral hepatitis C and tuberculosis treatments in low- and middle-income countries. At 15:12 hours IST, the scrip of Cadila Healthcare was quoting at Rs 341.40, up Rs 6.75, or 2.02 percent amid high volumes on BSE.

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