Sanofi to Buy Caprelsa Drug from AstraZeneca for $300 Million

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Sanofi agreed to buy a medicine called Caprelsa for as much as $300 million from AstraZeneca Plc to boost its rare disease medicine offerings.

The French drugmaker’s Genzyme unit will pay AstraZeneca $165 million upfront to acquire the global rights to sell and further develop Caprelsa, and further development and sales milestone payments of up to $135 million, it said in a statement.