Partnerships

A judge ruled that Regeneron’s mAb be removed from the market after Amgen alleged that the marketing of Praluent hurt its reputation as innovator of this class of drugs.

In an attempt to battle low production volumes of hard-to-manufacture biopharmaceuticals, GE Healthcare announced on January 4, 2017 that it will partner with Synpromics on the development of synthetic promotors. The goal of the collaboration is to identify promoters that will work most effectively with GE’s existing expression system for optimal transcription.

J&J’s Innovation Global announced the company has entered into 15 new collaborations.

Prokarium in the UK and Probiomed in Mexico hope to demonstrate large-scale production of oral vaccines that will reduce cost compared to injections and improve availability.

Portola signed a $50-million loan agreement with BMS and Pfizer to provide additional funding for the development of andexanet alfa.

Emergent signed a follow-up contract to provide 29.4 million doses of BioThrax to the Strategic National Stockpile.

The companies entered a manufacturing agreement for the future commercial production of Lenti-D and LentiGlobin product candidates.

Takeda and Lightstone have launched Cerevance, a neuroscience company focused on developing therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric disorders.

JHL Biotech and Sanofi collaborate on the development and commercialization of biological therapeutics in China.

Boehringer Ingelheim and China Southeast University announced a joint research collaboration to develop new regenerative treatments for hearing loss.

The company plans to expand access to its Prevanar 13 vaccine in humanitarian emergency settings.

STEERLife and the University of Mississippi will collaborate on fractional lobe processing research.

The agreement allows Bristol-Myers Squibb exclusive license to manufacture and commercialize Nitto Denko Corporation’s NASH treatment.

The Broad Institute and IBM Watson Health will collaborate on a $50 million project to study how cancers become resistant to therapies.

German biotech ARTES and Iranian biopharma manufacturer BioSun will develop an HPV vaccine.

Bellicum and Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù will collaborate on preclinical and clinical development of CAR-T and TCR therapeutics.

US and Chinese pharmacopeial standards groups commit to collaboration on standards for drug safety.

Teva and IBM expanded their partnership to focus on drug development and chronic disease management.

The collaboration follows the signing of a cooperative research agreement between Sanofi Pasteur, Fiocruz, and WRAIR.

Caribou and JAX entered into a license agreement for Caribou’s CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology.

Heat Biologics will collaborate with the University of Miami on the development of a Zika vaccine using the company’s gp96 platform.

The companies will collaborate the manufacture of personalized cancer vaccines.

HHS entered into a contract with BioProtection Systems Corp. for commercial manufacturing tests of an Ebola vaccine.

The companies entered into a collaboration and license agreement for Crescendo’s Humabody-based therapeutics.

The companies are collaborating on the commercialization of two biosimilar candidates in the US and Canada.

Allergan entered into a licensing agreement with AstraZeneca for MEDI2070, an anti-IL-23 monoclonal antibody in phase IIB development for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease.

ViraTherapeutics will develop its VSV-GP therapy alone and in combination with other therapies.

HHS entered into a $43.18 million contract with Sanofi Pasteur for the development of a Zika vaccine candidate.

The companies will collaborate on mRNA-based cancer vaccine development.

Adaptimmune entered into a manufacturing agreement with PCT for the manufacture of its SPEAR T-cell therapies.