Under the terms of the deal, Bedford, Mass.-based Stoke STOK will retain exclusive rights for the treatment called zorevunersen in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, while Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen BIIB will receive exclusive rights to markets in the rest of the world.

Under terms of the deal, Stoke will spearhead global development of zorevunersen, while Biogen will receive exclusive rights to commercialize the treatment outside of North America.

Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ:BIIB) and Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STOK) collaborated to develop and commercialize zorevunersen for Dravet syndrome in all territories outside the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Biogen has bolstered its pipeline by licensing ex-US rights to a drug for Dravet syndrome – a rare form of epilepsy – from Stoke Therapeutics in a deal that included an upfront payment of $165 million.

Biogen and Stoke Therapeutics have announced a partnership aimed at advancing a disease-modifying treatment for Dravet syndrome, with the deal worth $550m.

Stoke Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: STOK) has pulled in Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB) to help it develop and commercialize a treatment it’s working on for Dravet syndrome, a rare, debilitating form of epilepsy that affects children.

Biogen and Stoke Therapeutics have signed a deal to co-develop and sell Stoke’s experimental drug for Dravet syndrome, outside the U.S.

Biogen has entered a collaboration with Stoke Therapeutics to develop and and commercialise zorevunersen to treat Dravet syndrome in all territories outside Canada, Mexico and the US. Dravet syndrome is a genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterised by cognitive and behavioural impairments and recurrent seizures.

Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) and Stoke Therapeutics (NASDAQ:STOK) said on Tuesday they are collaborating to develop and commercialize zorevunersen, an investigational treatment for Dravet syndrome, in territories outside the United States,