Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Sumitomo Pharma Announce Exclusive License Agreement to Develop and Commercialize DSP-0187, a Potent, Highly Selective Oral Orexin-2 Receptor Agonist
DUBLIN and OSAKA, Japan, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) and Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Representative Director, President, and CEO: Hiroshi Nomura; Securities Code: 4506, Prime Market of TSE) today announced that the companies have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement under which Jazz has acquired development and commercialization rights in the United States, Europe and other territories for Sumitomo Pharma's investigational DSP-0187, a potent, highly selective oral orexin-2 receptor agonist with potential application for the treatment of narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia and other sleep disorders. Jazz has designated this molecule JZP441.
- Sumitomo Pharma initiated a Phase 1 trial in Japan of DSP-0187 in November 2021 to evaluate safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics in healthy volunteers.
- "Orexin agonism is an exciting area of sleep disorder research and an approach that may be complementary to oxybate therapy.
- "DSP-0187 is a potent, highly selective oral orexin-2 receptor agonist, which is a novel small molecule compound originally created by Sumitomo Pharma by utilizing our advanced expertise in drug discovery for central nervous system disorders.
- DSP-0187 is a potent, highly selective orexin-2 receptor agonist designed to activate orexin signaling.