SECOND AMENDMENT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.1
SECOND AMENDMENT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Second Amendment (this “Amendment”) is effective as of May 10, 2024 (the “Second Amendment Date”) and is made to that certain License Agreement by and between Vanderbilt University, a not-for-profit corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the state of Tennessee (“Vanderbilt”), and Neumora Therapeutics, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with a principal place of business at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 00000 (“Neumora”) effective as of the 10th day of February, 2022 as amended by the First Amendment to License Agreement dated as of July 17, 2023 (the “Agreement”). Each of Neumora and Xxxxxxxxxx may be referred to individually as a “Party” and collectively as the “Parties”. All Capitalized terms used but not defined herein will have the meaning given to such terms in the Agreement.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Xxxxxxx and Vanderbilt have previously entered into a sponsored research agreement effective as of February 10, 2022, as amended but now expired (the “First SRA”), under which Vanderbilt developed additional M4 XXX compounds (the “Additional M4 XXX Compounds”) and granted Neumora an option to include Vanderbilt’s rights in the Additional M4 XXX Compounds as licensed rights under the License Agreement. Neumora exercised such option in the Option Exercise Notice dated as of November 14, 2023, and such rights are now Licensed Intellectual Property under the Agreement; and
WHEREAS, Xxxxxxx and Vanderbilt have entered into a second sponsored research agreement effective as of the Second Amendment Date (the “Second SRA”) to develop data for the Additional M4 XXX Compounds and grant Neumora an option to include Vanderbilt’s rights in any further patents that may arise from this Second SRA as licensed rights under the Agreement(i.e., as Improvement Patents); and
WHEREAS, the Parties desire to make certain amendments to the Agreement to clarify that the reference to the sponsored research agreement in the Agreement refers to each of the First SRA and the Second SRA and all Neumora rights and options arising from Vanderbilt’s activities under the Second SRA apply equally as if Vanderbilt’s activities were conducted under the First SRA;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:
“SRA” means each of (1) the Sponsored Research Agreement between the Parties with an effective date of the Effective Date of this Agreement, as amended and (2) the
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Sponsored Research Agreement between the Parties with an effective date of the Effective Date of the Second Amendment Date.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have duly executed this Amendment as of the Second Amendment Date.
NEUMORA THERAPEUTICS, INC. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
By:___/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx___________ By: ___/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx________________
Title: President & CEO Title: Asst. Vice Chancellor, Technology Transfer
Date: _______________________________ Date: ______________________________