CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Medicines Corporation (NASDAQ:BPMC), a precision therapy company focused on genomically defined cancers, rare diseases and cancer immunotherapy, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of $325,000,000 in shares of its common stock. In addition, Blueprint Medicines expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $48,750,000 in shares of its common stock in connection with the public offering. All shares of common stock will be offered by Blueprint Medicines.

Blueprint Medicines expects to use the net proceeds of the offering to further build its global commercial infrastructure to support additional planned regulatory filings and commercial launches for AYVAKIT and pralsetinib, if approved, in the U.S. and Europe; to fund clinical trials for avapritinib in systemic mastocytosis (SM), including its ongoing registration-enabling Phase 2 PIONEER clinical trial for indolent and smoldering SM, as well as future indication expansion clinical trials; to fund clinical trials for pralsetinib in RET-driven cancers, including its Phase 3 AcceleRET Lung clinical trial for pralsetinib in first-line RET-altered NSCLC and its planned Phase 3 clinical trial for pralsetinib in first-line RET-mutant MTC, as well as future indication expansion clinical trials; to fund its planned Phase 1 trial for BLU-263 in healthy volunteers and future clinical trials for BLU-263 and other future drug candidates; to fund manufacturing costs for AYVAKIT and for ongoing and anticipated drug development efforts for its most advanced drug candidates; and the balance, if any, to fund additional discovery research efforts, its other ongoing and planned clinical trials, working capital requirements and other general corporate purposes.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Canaccord Genuity LLC, JMP Securities LLC, and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. are acting as co-lead managers for the offering. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
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