Rigel Pharmaceuticals Acquires U.S. Rights to GAVRETO®
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Rigel”) (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. rights to GAVRETO® (pralsetinib) from Blueprint Medicines Corporation (“Blueprint”). GAVRETO is a once daily, small molecule, oral, kinase inhibitor of wild-type RET (rearranged during transfection) and oncogenic RET fusions. GAVRETO is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as detected by an FDA approved test.