Merus, a Netherlands-based biopharmaceutical company for human antibody therapeutics, has met the second milestone in its option agreement with Switzerland-based drugs maker Novartis’s corporate venturing unit. Novartis Option Fund, part of the $850m Novartis Venture Funds team, will pay an undisclosed amount for the milestone. In January 2010, Merus entered into a $200m option agreement…

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