Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced a
strategic collaboration with Truveta, Inc. and its collective of
U.S. health systems to advance innovation and data-driven discovery
across the life sciences, public health and healthcare delivery
ecosystem. Regeneron will provide a strategic investment of $119.5
million as part of Truveta’s Series C financing round and
collaborate with Truveta to launch the Truveta Genome Project. This
project will extend Regeneron’s world-leading DNA sequence-linked
healthcare database with an ambitious new effort to sequence up to
ten million additional de-identified patient volunteers, all with
linked electronic health records (EHRs). This novel resource is
designed to unlock profound insights into how genetics impact
health and has the potential to ultimately lead to new
genetic-based therapies and optimized healthcare services.
"The scale and diversity of the Truveta Genome Project will
enable us to explore the complex interplay between genetics and
health in unprecedented detail,” said Aris Baras, M.D., Senior Vice
President at Regeneron and Head of Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC).
“With nearly three million exomes sequenced in our RGC database to
date, Regeneron scientists have already identified dozens of
genetic-based drug targets for a wide range of conditions –
including chronic liver disease, obesity, cancer and
neurodegenerative conditions – that have led to multiple
clinical-stage medicines. As we continue to scale our genomics
initiatives, we seek more targets and medicines, while expanding
the potential impact of our research to optimize clinical trials
and personalize healthcare delivery."
To enable the project, RGC will sequence the exomes and conduct
genotyping and imputation of up to ten million de-identified
consented volunteers using biospecimens provided by Truveta health
system members across the nation. This genotypic data will be added
to Truveta's unprecedented complete and timely de-identified
medical database, representing more than 120 million patients
across 30 health systems. The integration of these datasets is
expected to yield actionable insights that have the potential to
transform drug development, healthcare delivery and population
health management.
“Nations have spent decades and billions of dollars to try and
uncover the mysteries of biology to advance healthcare,” said Terry
Myerson, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Truveta. “Just
like volunteering to be an organ donor on your driver’s license is
a simple act of service with a profound impact, the Truveta Genome
Project enables each of us to anonymously contribute to
dramatically accelerate progress in discovering the science of
humanity, improving the health of our families and communities, and
lowering the cost of care. Discoveries from smaller datasets have
led to important new approaches to help prevent heart disease and
restore hearing in children with certain forms of congenital
deafness – it is so exciting to envision where a complete
representative genomic dataset will guide us.”
Illumina, Inc., a long-standing RGC partner and a global leader
in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, will also invest
$20 million in Truveta’s Series C financing round in support of the
Truveta Genome Project.
"Population scale omics initiatives like this hold incredible
promise to accelerate new discoveries, improve human health, and
advance healthcare equity for all communities. We are excited to
bring our world-class sequencing technology to this important
endeavor," said Jakob Wedel, Chief Strategy and Corporate
Development Officer, Illumina.
RGC will have exclusive rights to perform all research-related
sequencing on samples collected under the collaboration, in
addition to access to the de-identified EHR data provided by each
of the consented study participants. Additionally, Regeneron and
Truveta plan to partner to utilize this data in the development of
next-generation solutions for healthcare delivery and population
health management.
“Big Data – combined with human ingenuity – is the key to
driving next-generation scientific advancements. For nearly four
decades, Regeneron has discovered and developed groundbreaking
medicines that address the underlying causes of disease, and this
next frontier of medicine will continue to be driven by innovative
application of data,” said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.,
Board co-Chair, President and Chief Scientific Officer of
Regeneron. “By combining Regeneron’s expertise in genetics and drug
development with Truveta's extensive phenotypic data and
collaboration of leading U.S. health systems, we hope to create the
‘Big Data’ that will empower the next generation of drug discovery,
as well as enable new approaches to healthcare analytics and
healthcare management.”
About Regeneron Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a
leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and
commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious
diseases. Founded and led by physician-scientists, our unique
ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into
medicine has led to numerous approved treatments and product
candidates in development, most of which were homegrown in our
laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help
patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases,
cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neurological
diseases, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare
diseases.
Regeneron pushes the boundaries of scientific discovery
and accelerates drug development using our proprietary
technologies, such as VelociSuite®, which produces optimized fully
human antibodies and new classes of bispecific antibodies. We are
shaping the next frontier of medicine with data-powered insights
from the Regeneron Genetics Center® and pioneering genetic medicine
platforms, enabling us to identify innovative targets and
complementary approaches to potentially treat or cure diseases.
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About the Regeneron Genetics CenterRegeneron
Genetics Center® (RGC™) is a genomic research initiative and a
wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron. For over a decade, we have
harnessed the power of human genetics to discover important new
medicines, validate existing research programs and optimize
clinical trials. We tap into our growing database of more than 2.6
million sequenced exomes and de-identified health information using
proprietary data analytics, technology and human ingenuity to
make meaningful biological discoveries at speed and
scale. Our high-touch integrated model focuses on working
closely with our collaborators to build a dataset with
meaningful cohorts. We use innovative technologies, such as machine
learning, to sequence exomes, align with health information and
perform large-scale analyses to make meaningful associations
between genes and diseases. We apply our insights to guide
Regeneron’s broader drug discovery and development efforts.
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coverage and reimbursement determinations by such payers and new
policies and procedures adopted by such payers; competing drugs and
product candidates that may be superior to, or more cost effective
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companies, as applicable), as well as the collaboration with
Truveta, Inc. discussed in this press release, to be cancelled or
terminated; the impact of public health outbreaks, epidemics, or
pandemics (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) on Regeneron's business;
and risks associated with intellectual property of other parties
and pending or future litigation relating thereto (including
without limitation the patent litigation and other related
proceedings relating to EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection), other
litigation and other proceedings and government investigations
relating to the Company and/or its operations (including the
pending civil proceedings initiated or joined by the U.S.
Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
District of Massachusetts), the ultimate outcome of any such
proceedings and investigations, and the impact any of the foregoing
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