 Announced in April 2014, the collaboration was to run for an initial seven years, provided certain performance targets were met.However, the agreement was terminated by ALK in 2016 in favor of a collaboration with a new distributor.ALK also has a collaboration with Abbott covering Russia and selected emerging markets, under which Abbott gains rights to distribute and commercialize ALK's SLIT-tablets for grass, ragweed, tree and house dust mite allergies.