OSAKA, Japan, and South San Francisco, California, May 10, 2024 – Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Chief Executive Officer: Isao Teshirogi, Ph.D.; hereafter “Shionogi”) and Maze Therapeutics, Inc. (Head Office: South San Francisco, California, USA; Chief Executive Officer: Jason Coloma, Ph.D.; hereafter “Maze”) announced the companies have completed an exclusive worldwide license agreement for the rights to MZE001, an investigational oral glycogen synthase 1 (GYS1) inhibitor that aims to address Pompe disease by limiting disease-causing glycogen buildup.