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Dendreon Raising $125 Million Via I.P. Sale (DNDN, MRK)

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Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is supposed to be the king of prostate cancer with its PROVENGE treatment.  Unfortunately, PROVENGE sales ran slower than expected after the FDA took forever to approve it and after the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements took a considerable time.

Now the company has news out that it has agreed to sell its royalty interest related to intellectual property licensed to Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK) associated with VICTRELIS under the Schering unit for $125 million in cash.

VICTRELIS is a treatment for chronic hepatitis C as a protease inhibitor. The press release noted that the royalty interest was acquired by CPPIB Credit Investments Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CPP Investment Board (CPPIB).

The intellectual property related to VICTRELIS was co-developed by Corvas International, Inc. and Schering and, was acquired by Dendreon in July 2003.  The transaction is expected to close in December 2011.

The move is aimed at strengthening its cash position and to enable the company to further invest in its core business initiatives.

Dendreon shares are flat at $8.80 and its market cap is currently $1.3 billion.  To show how bad this one has been, Dendreon’s 52-week trading range is $6.46 to $43.96.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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