11/18/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/18/2024 06:30
Item 1.02. |
Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On November 13, 2024, Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") gave notice to QIAGEN Manchester Limited ("QIAGEN") of its election to terminate the Master Collaboration Agreement dated March 7, 2022 (the "Agreement") relating to the development and commercialization of an assay as a companion diagnostic test for use with tamibarotene as a result of the failure of the Company's SELECT-MDS-1 Phase3 trial evaluating tamibarotene to meet its primary endpoint of complete response rate, which was previously disclosed on the Company's Current Report on Form 8-Kfiled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 13, 2024. The termination will be effective 90 days following such notice.
Under the terms of the Agreement, QIAGEN was responsible for developing, and obtaining and maintaining regulatory approvals for the companion diagnostic test in the United States and, at the request of the Company and subject to the negotiation of mutually agreed payments, in certain additional markets. In addition, QIAGEN had agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to manufacture the companion diagnostic test and, upon negotiation of mutually agreed terms, to make the companion diagnostic test commercially available in the United States, the additional markets, and such other countries as the parties may mutually agree. In connection with the termination of the Agreement, the Company will be obligated to pay QIAGEN certain wind-down and other costs and other final payments.
The foregoing description of the material terms of the Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Agreement, which the Company has filed, with confidential terms redacted, with the SEC as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q forthe quarterly period ended March 31, 2022.