Treherne said pharma companies are "very avidly" looking for discovery collaborations to build their pipelines

I think this gives Atrix an opportunity to be well founded as a specialty pharma company

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Clearly, J&J is one of the major pharma companies in the world today and they have great experience in doing large development programs such as would be required for a direct thrombin inhibitor and a lot of experience in small-molecule drug development

Corixa prior to the Coulter transaction built itself in partnerships with major pharma companies

Metspalu said the majority of funding is expected to come from private resources such as biotech and pharma companies

Trega raised the data necessary for ADME prediction, from cooperations with five big pharma companies

MetaPhore's collaborations include a co-exclusive agreement with the former Monsanto Co., since bought by Pharmacia Corp., of Peapack, N.J. The pharma company gets rights of first offer for anything MetaPhore develops in exchange for an equity investment totaling about $1 million

As specialty pharma companies mature, they're going to be on the hots for drugs, and the big bolus of drugs exists within biotech," Sonnier noted, and Stahel already has indicated the new entity will be shopping for bargains

Also, it's possible a big pharma company might match up well with Artecel, she said

This expansion makes for the largest antibody discovery and development collaboration in biotechnology, Milne said, and positions both companies, he added, to become the next generation of pharma company...Over the next several years this will turn CuraGen and Abgenix into the next generation of pharma company

According to Klein, Noxxon is in discussions with several big pharma companies concerning additional cooperative agreements

There's a business model of partnering, offering lead-specific deals to pharma companies to generate data for clinical trials

Watson has been rapidly growing, but unlike a relationship with a really major pharma company where our product might be small in comparison to other things in the portfolio, at Watson, Aslera has the potential of being very important

BioChem purchased 8 million of its shares from research partner GlaxoWellcome Inc., of Research Triangle Park, N.C., last year, reducing the pharma company's interest from 12.2 percent to 5.3 percent

This is the first time a company has had the foresight to say, 'We could save a lot of time and be more efficient if we brought together data from all our research activity.' This is a common problem in big pharma companies throughout the world, and we see this as the first of what we hope to be a number of contracts like this

to develop novel therapeutic antibodies against cancer based on tumor surface antigen targets, a deal that provides the pharma company with antigens isolated by Corixa

He said Structural GenomiX is currently talking to a number of big pharma companies and some larger biotech companies concerning partnerships or alliances centered on the company's protein structures

It is seeking partnerships with pharma companies that aim to build a comprehensive understanding of their main disease areas