From my colleague Adam Feuerstein: Biogen and Stoke Therapeutics have signed a partnership agreement to co-develop and sell Stoke’s experimental treatment for Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, outside the U.S., the companies said this morning.

Under terms of the deal, Stoke will spearhead global development of zorevunersen, while Biogen will receive exclusive rights to commercialize the treatment outside of North America.

Under the terms of the deal, Bedford, Mass.-based Stoke STOK will retain exclusive rights for the treatment called zorevunersen in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, while Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen BIIB will receive exclusive rights to markets in the rest of the world.

In exchange for $165 million, Biogen now has access to zorevunersen, a potential first-of-its-kind treatment for Dravet syndrome.

Stoke Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: STOK) has pulled in Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB) to help it develop and commercialize a treatment it’s working on for Dravet syndrome, a rare, debilitating form of epilepsy that affects children.

Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) and Stoke Therapeutics (NASDAQ:STOK) said on Tuesday they are collaborating to develop and commercialize zorevunersen, an investigational treatment for Dravet syndrome, in territories outside the United States,