| Company* (Country; Symbol) | Company* (Country; Symbol) | Type/Product Area | Terms/Details (Date) |
| ABR-Affinity BioReagents* | Genesis Biotech Inc.* and Good Biotech Corp.* | Distribution agreements on research antibodies | Genesis Biotech manufactures antibodies focusing on gene function and discovery, while Good Biotech is focused on disease research; ABR-Affinity will distribute the products in the U.S. (9/13) |
| Affymetrix Inc. (AFFX) | Empire Genomics LLC* | Nonexclusive, worldwide license agreement to a number of Affymetrix patents | The patents cover the manufacturing, use and sales of nucleic acid microarrays and related products and services for comparative genomic hybridization (9/7) |
| Apollo Life Sciences (Australia; BE:A3L) | Millipore Corp. (NYSE:MIL) | Agreement to produce human leukaemia inhibitor factor for Millipore | Apollo will use its human cell-expressed protein technology to make the hLIF, which Millipore will sell worldwide to researchers for use in preventing stem cells from differentiating (8/21) |
| Avecia Biologics Ltd.* (UK) | Renovo Group plc (UK; LSE:RNVO) | Agreement for process development and manufacture of Renovo's developmental product, Prevascar, a therapeutic formulation of human recombinant interleukin-10 | Avecia will carry out development work to optimize the drug manufacturing process and scale-up; it also will conduct further cGMP manufacture of IL-10 in Avecia's biologics facilities (10/1) |
| Columbia Laboratories Inc. (CBRX) | Ascend Therapeutics Inc.* | Exclusive, five-year license and supply agreement for the sales and marketing of Columbia's Prochieve 4% progesterone gel, which is approved for treating secondary amenorrhea | Ascend will purchase product from Columbia at a transfer price equal to 35% of its net selling price in a deal that includes increasing minimum annual purchase obligations (9/27) |
| GammaCan International Inc. (Israel; OTC BB: GCAN) | DCI Biologicals Inc.* | Plasma supply agreement | DCI Biologicals will collect plasma from vitiglo donors for the manufacture of VitiGam for melanoma; GammaCan made its exclusive supply agreement with Life Therapeutics Inc. to nonexclusive (10/1) |
| MicroIslet Inc. (OTC BB:MIIS) | Progenitor Cell Therapy LLC* | Manufacturing agreement for MicroIslet-P, a product consisting of microencapsulated islets for implantation into the abdominal cavity that is designed to provide self-regulating blood glucose control | MicroIslet-P will be manufactured at PCT's California facility under the cGMP for use in MicroIslet's ongoing preclinical studies and planned clinical programs (9/17) |
| Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc. (MIPI) | Poniard Pharmaceuticals Inc. (PARD) | Agreement under which Molecular Insight purchased a commercial-scale radio-pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Denton, Texas, from NeoRx Manufacturing Group Inc., a subsidiary of Poniard | The $3M transaction allows Molecular Insight to expand its manufacturing capabilities (10/3) |
| Sirtex Medical Ltd. (Australia; ASX:SRX) | Synmosa Biopharma Corp.* (Taiwan) | Licensing agreement that covers the marketing in Taiwan of Sirtex's SIR-Spheres microspheres for treating advanced liver cancer | Sirtex estimated it would take one or two years to gain approval in Taiwan (8/17) |
| Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (NYSE:VRX) | Ascend Therapeutics* | Exclusive rights agreement to promote its migraine nasal spray Migranal to more than 5,500 OB/GYNs in the U.S. | Valeant will continue to market Migranal to physicians outside the OB/BYN specialty area and retain all other responsibilities for the product (10/2) |
| ValiRx plc (UK: LSE:VAL) | Chroma Therapeutics* (UK) | Full license agreement to commercialize a non-invasive diagnostic technology patent developed by Chroma that identifies epigenetic signal changes that occur in cancer-related illnesses | ValiRx will pay Chroma royalties on any future sales resulting from commercialization of the Nucleosomics technology (10/15) |
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Notes: * Private companies are indicated with an asterisk. Unless otherwise noted, stock symbols listed are on the Nasdaq market.ASX = Australian Stock Exchange; BE = Berlin Stock Exchange; LSE = London Stock Exchange; NYSE = New York Stock Exchange; OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. | |||
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