Partnerships

Exothera, LogicBioTherapeutics, and Polyplus-transfection, are collaborating on the development of a scalable AAV manufacturing platform.

Through the Thermo Fisher Scientific and LabShares Newton partnership, life science startups can accelerate early-stage discovery and development with shared lab spaces.

Lonza and Israel Biotech Fund form a two-year agreement to support accelerated development and manufacture of biologics and small molecules.

AbbVie and Cugene have reached an exclusive license option agreement for CUG252, Cugene’s lead therapeutic candidate.

Through a collaboration, Avantor and Cytovance Biologics will accelerate plasmid optimization and sourcing services for viral vectors and mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics.

A consortium of nine development partners will support Biovac's expansion of its existing vaccine manufacturing plant capacity, while Biovac itself aims to raise funds to boost increased vaccine manufacturing capacity across Africa.

Thermo Fisher and Symphogen have extended their collaboration involving improved data workflow, which supports the discovery and development of new cancer treatments.

Under a collaboration, IDT Biologika and Exothera will conduct feasibility studies on scaling up the manufacturing process for viral vector-based vaccines.

Moderna and Thermo Fisher Scientific have formed a collaboration to leverage dedicated commercial fill/finish manufacturing capacity in the US for mRNA vaccines and therapies.

ImmunoGen and Eli Lilly and Company have entered into an agreement that gives Lilly exclusive rights to research, develop, and commercialize ADCs designed for targets selected by Lilly from ImmunoGen’s camptothecin technology.

CGT Catapult has partnered with MICA Biosystems to advance MICA’s regenerative medicine technology to the UK’s MHRA.

Eli Lilly and Company has entered into a research and collaboration agreement with Entos Pharmaceuticals to develop new therapeutics for treating neurologic disorders.

In their collaboration, Bristol Myers Squibb and Prellis Biologics aim to generate human antibody libraries for select targets to enable drug discovery.

Fosun Pharma and Insilico Medicine will collaborate on AI-driven drug discovery and development of product candidates targeting multiple disease targets.

The collaboration between Bristol Myers Squibb and Century Therapeutics will combine Century’s iPSC-derived allogeneic cell therapy platform with Bristol Myers Squibb’s expertise in cell therapy and oncology drug development.

The COVID-19 pandemic generated partnerships among organizations with the goal of changing the way in which assay development and tech transfer of these assays are conducted moving forward.

The urgency with which COVID-19 forced the biopharma industry to produce therapies has refocused the search for new tools to enable rapid therapeutic responses to a pandemic.

GlaxoSmithKline, together with the University of Oxford, has launched the Oxford-GSK Institute under a new collaboration that aims to study complex diseases to accelerate the success of drug discovery and drug development efforts.

Lonza has signed a five-year services agreement to provide for the development and manufacturing of biologics and small molecules for portfolio companies owned by Bioqube Ventures.

Leucid Bio will collaborate with Lonza to use Lonza’s Cocoon Platform for clinical and commercial manufacturing of CAR T cells for Leucid’s lead candidate.

Chinook Therapeutics has formed a 50/50 joint venture with investors to develop kidney disease therapies in China.

Partnerships formed during the COVID-19 pandemic have provided a platform for change in assay development and transfers that should continue in the future.

Novozymes and Novo Nordisk Pharmatech are teaming up to develop best-in-class technical enzymes to support biopharmaceutical production processes.

Samsung Biologics, GreenLight Biosciences, and Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. have partnered to advance GreenLight’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

Secarna Pharmaceuticals and Achilles Therapeutics have entered into an agreement to optimize the development of T cell therapies in Achilles’ pipeline.