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SUTEZOLID – Pfizer

Patent Holder: Pfizer

Date: October 2019

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) signed a licensing agreement with Pfizer in October 2019 to facilitate the clinical development of sutezolid, an investigational medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). Pfizer is granting MPP a non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty-free licence allowing potential future MPP sublicensees to access Pfizer’s preclinical, phase I and phase IIa clinical study data and results with the aim to further study, develop and make available this potential important component of new TB regimens.

MPP had already signed a licence with Johns Hopkins University in 2017 covering sutezolid in combination therapy, which did not include preclinical and clinical study data. This added element provided by the Pfizer-MPP licence can facilitate faster development of sutezolid.

Organisations interested in signing a sublicence with us are invited to click here for more information.

— Licence Agreement

— Exhibit B: Know-How

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Advisory Group Report

GENERIC PARTNERS AND PRODUCT DEVELOPERS

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The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is a United Nations-backed public health organisation working to increase access to and facilitate the development of life-saving medicines for low- and middle-income countries. Through its innovative business model, MPP partners with civil society, governments, international organisations, industry, patient groups, and other stakeholders to prioritise and license needed medicines and pool intellectual property to encourage generic manufacture and the development of new formulations.

To date, MPP has signed agreements with 22 patent holders for 13 HIV antiretrovirals, one HIV technology platform, three hepatitis C direct-acting antivirals, a tuberculosis treatment, a cancer treatment, four long-acting technologies, a post-partum haemorrhage medicine, three oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19 and 16 COVID-19 technologies.

MPP was founded by Unitaid, which continues to be MPP’s main funder. MPP’s work on access to essential medicines is also funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Government of Canada and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). MPP’s activities in COVID-19 are undertaken with the financial support of the Japanese Government, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and SDC.