HBM Holdings (HKG:2142) received an upfront payment for its licensing agreement with Windward Bio AG, along with an equity interest in the latter's parent company, a Thursday Hong Kong bourse filing said.
The company and Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical (HKG:6990) had agreed to grant an exclusive license for their jointly developed HBM9378/SKB378, an anti-TSLP fully human antibody for immunological diseases, to Windward Bio, which could commercialize the drug worldwide aside from greater China and some other Southeast and West Asian countries.