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San Diego-Based Cypress Bioscience Sells Fibromyalgia Drug Marketing Rights.

The San Diego Union-Tribune (San Diego, CA)

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Byline: Penni Crabtree

Jan. 10--A tiny San Diego company yesterday sold co-marketing rights to its experimental fibromyalgia drug to New York's Forest Laboratories in a deal worth up to $250 million.

Money-losing Cypress Bioscience, which faced an expensive round of last-stage Phase 3 human studies, said Forest will fund all continuing development of the drug, called milnacipran.

In addition, Forest will pay Cypress undisclosed upfront fees and milestone payments of between $200 million and $250 million, as well as undisclosed royalties if the drug is approved in the United States.

"We've come a long way, and this is tremendous for us,"…

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