** Shares of Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company SPRC.NS up
as much as 7.67% to 247.15 rupees, their highest since Sept. 15
** Bio-pharma co hits sharpest intraday pct gain since Oct.
18
** SPRC enters into an licence agreement with Johns Hopkins
University and The Institute of Organic Chemistry and
Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences
** Agreement to exclusively license SCD-153 Alopecia Areata
drug
** About 3.3 mln shares traded as of 12:07 p.m. IST, 4.7 the
30-day average
** Stock last up 5.1%, extending YTD gains to ~15%
(Reporting by Manvi Pant in Bengaluru)
((Manvi.Pant@thomsonreuters.com; +918447554364;))