Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (TTI), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative immune-based biologics, today announced that it has entered into two definitive license agreements with University Health Network (UHN) and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario, granting Trillium exclusive worldwide rights to commercialize two immunology programs in the areas of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cancer.
"We are very excited to have strengthened our immunology franchise and to have reinforced our existing bond with Toronto's world-class immunology community. Our productive long-standing relationship with UHN bodes well for the success of this new collaboration", commented Dr. Niclas Stiernholm, Trillium's CEO. "This transaction exemplifies how ground-breaking Canadian science can and should be commercialized by our domestic biotechnology industry, something that must be encouraged and supported also by government and investor groups."