Akeso Partnership

Akeso: Leading innovative biopharmaceutical company in China

Summit Therapeutics Inc. has a definitive partnership with Akeso, Inc. (HKEX Code: 9926.HK, “Akeso”), to in-license its breakthrough bispecific antibody, ivonescimab. Akeso is a pioneer and source originator in developing innovative antibodies. The agreement supports Summit’s mission of developing and commercializing groundbreaking oncology pipeline products aimed at improving the quality of life of patients with serious unmet medical needs.

Ivonescimab is known as SMT112 in Summit’s license territories: United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America (including Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean), the Middle East, and Africa; and as AK112 in Akeso's license territories, rest of world. Ivonescimab is known a novel, potential first-in-class investigational bispecific antibody combining the effects of immunotherapy via a blockade of PD-1 with the anti-angiogenesis effects associated with blocking VEGF into a single molecule. Ivonescimab is a PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody being studied in phase 3 clinical studies in the Summit License Territories. There are no known PD-1-based bispecific antibodies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) or the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”). ​A New Drug Application (“NDA”) of ivonescimab has been accepted by the Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration (“NMPA CDE”) of China in August 2023, and it was approved in May 2024.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).