Partnerships

Celgene will pay Agios $200 million to lead exploratory, research, drug discovery, and early development work for metabolic immuno-oncology.

Pelican BioThermal, a provider of temperature-controlled packaging solutions for the life-sciences industry, announced on May 13, 2016 that it has entered into partnerships with BioThermal Solutions and NatBio, which offer cold chain logistics support in South America. Located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, NatBio was created to meet the demands of specialized clinics. BioThermal Solutions, based in Santiago, Chile, provides cold-chain maintenance solutions throughout Chile.

The collaborations have the goal of creating new tools that will help predict how people with Type 2 diabetes adhere to their medication.

The companies announced that they have mutually decided to terminate the planned merger after the US Department of Treasury and the IRS issue temporary and proposed regulations on tax inversion.

The commercial partnership aims to use digital health tools including sensors, apps, analytics, personal feedback, and education to assist patients in monitoring respiratory diseases.

A team of Bristol-Myers Squibb scientists will work in a new laboratory at the National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training facility in Dublin, Ireland.

The partnership aims to facilitate the development of therapeutic and diagnostic candidates for European biopharmaceutical clients.

The Human Vaccines Project brings together academic research centers, industrial partners, nonprofit organizations, and governments to address the primary scientific barriers to developing new vaccines and immunotherapies.

The new class of mAbs differs from approved anti-PD 1 mAbs because they do not block the PD-1-PD-L1 interaction.

The collaboration is part of Innovate UK’s competition for the development of regenerative medicines.

Curida entered into a partnership with René Bommer, PhD, founder and owner of pharmAccel Consulting.

Barvarian Nordic, Evaxion Biotech, and the Technical University of Denmark announced plans to collaborate on the development of a vaccine for MRSA.

Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb enter into agreement with Portola to develop and commercialize andexanet alfa in Japan.

The partnership will focus on the identification and analysis of host-cell proteins in biologics.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and enGene have entered into a strategic alliance to develop novel therapies for specialty gastrointestinal diseases.

Adimab and Merck have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Adimab’s antibody technology to Merck Research Laboratories.

Cell Therapy Catapult and Synpromics announced a collaboration to increase scale and efficiency of viral vector manufacturing.

AstraZeneca and Moderna Therapeutics set to collaborate on mRNA therapeutic candidates for the treatment of cancer.

Novartis enters into alliance and licensing agreement with Surface Oncology.

AstraZeneca partners with the Wallenberg Center for Protein Research to conduct studies on the Secretome.

Protea will use Agilent’s mass spectrometry imaging technology to develop new methods to identify cell metabolites produced as a result of disease or drug exposure.

The University of Pittsburgh partners with biopharmaceutical company, Shire plc, to research rare diseases.

The “next-generation” design for the pods will build on Pfizer’s existing modular prototype for oral solid-dose manufacturing.

Univercells will integrate its single-use bioprocess with the Takeda vaccines production platform to allow local production.