Research & Development

Agenus to use Selexis’ technology to produce therapeutic proteins

Selexis has expanded its alliance with clinical-stage immuno-oncology company Agenus by signing additional commercial license agreements (CLAs).

Elevian, Insilico collaborate to discover drugs for aging

Elevian and Insilico Medicine have announced a research and development partnership to develop oral medications targeting the GDF11 pathway and associated targets.

CANbridge, WuXi expand rare disease partnership

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals and WuXi Biologics have expanded their rare disease therapeutics partnership to enable the former to discover, develop and commercialize four additional drug candidates.

Pfizer to utilize CytoReason’s machine learning model for drug discovery

Pfizer has signed a collaboration agreement to use CytoReason’s machine learning model of the immune system for drug discovery.

Gilead, Yuhan to co-develop new therapies for NASH in $785m deal

Gilead Sciences has signed a licensing and collaboration agreement, potentially worth $785m, with South Korea-based Yuhan to develop new therapeutic candidates for the treatment of advanced fibrosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Adaptive, Genentech to collaborate on personalized cellular therapies for cancer

Adaptive Biotechnologies has entered into a worldwide collaboration and license agreement with Roche Group’s Genentech to develop, manufacture and commercialize novel neoantigen directed T-cell therapies for the treatment of a range of cancers.

Sanofi to invest €80m in biopharmaceutical firm BioNTech

French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi investing €80m in equity in BioNTech, which is claimed to be the Europe’s largest privately-held biopharmaceutical firm focused on the development of individualized therapies for cancer and the prevention of infectious diseases.

Boehringer exercises option on second hepatic disease target from Dicerna partnership

Boehringer Ingelheim has exercised an option to receive exclusive rights to a second hepatic disease target emerging from its research collaboration and license agreement with Dicerna.

Otsuka, Click to develop digital therapeutics for MDD

Otsuka America and Click Therapeutics have signed a collaboration agreement for the development and commercialization of a prescription digital therapeutic to treat major depressive disorder (MDD).