Galapagos leaps on $1.35 billion RA drug deal with Abbott Labs

1 March 2012

Belgian drug developer Galapagos (Euronext: GLPG) saw its shares rocket 27% to a record high 13.89 euros yesterday, after it revealed that it has entered into a global collaboration with US health care major Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) to develop and commercialize an oral, next-generation JAK1 inhibitor in Phase II development with the potential to treat multiple autoimmune diseases, worth a potential $1.35 billion to the company.

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