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$80M Payday for Synta

Rebecca Zacks

December 5th, 2007

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GlaxoSmithKline has written Lexington, MA-based Synta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SNTA) a check for $80 million. The payment is the first installment under a cancer-drug development agreement that could ultimately be worth $1.1 billion for the Lexington firm.

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