Pharmalive -- MARSEILLES, France, October 6, 2008 Innate Pharma (Euronext Paris : FR0010331421 – IPH), a biopharmaceutical company developing firstin- class drugs targeting the innate immune system, today announces that it has acquired the worldwide exclusive development and commercial rights to IPH 2101 (formerly NN1975) from Novo Nordisk A/S (“NN”) in the context of a swap of products. IPH 2101 is a natural killer (“NK”) cells-targeting monoclonal antibody with a novel mode of action for hematological (blood) cancer indications. It is currently undergoing two Phase I clinical trials in acute myeloid leukemia (“AML”) and multiple myeloma (“MMy”), in France and the USA respectively.
