The FDA launches a new rare disease development initiative, BioNTech’s BNT113 misses a progression-free survival endpoint, and Viking Therapeutics begins Phase III trials of its oral obesity candidate.
|Articles|June 15, 2002
- BioPharm International-06-01-2002
- Volume 15
- Issue 6
Negotiating and Structuring Strategic Alliances
by David Schulman, Dechert London; and Joe Zammit-Lucia, Chris Easley, Cambridge Pharma Consultancy The job of many a biotech CEO is scrambling to find and secure funds to support the company's development projects. For many biopharmaceutical companies in early development stages, collaboration with "big pharma" is a compelling answer to the cashflow problem. But strategic alliances should benefit those on both sides of the negotiating table.
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