Company* (Country; Symbol) Company Type/Product Area Terms/Details (Date)
Cepheid (CPHD) Northrup Grumman Five-year master purchase agreement for up to $200M in Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) test cartridges and associated materials The anthrax test is currently used in bio-hazard detection systems installed at U.S. Postal Service mail processing centers nationwide (8/16)
Chembio Diagnostics Inc. (OTC BB: CEMI) Pall Corp. Collaboration in a deal that will use chembio's new Dual Path Platform The initial collaboration will focus on the feasibility of one application of the tech- nology; Pall will fund feasibility studies, which could lead to license and other agreements (7/31)
DNAPrint Genomics Inc. (OTC BB:DNAG) Dutchess Private Equities Fund Ltd. Agreement under which $6M in notes and incentive debentures may be paid in full by the issuance of stock and warrants in connection with a proposed spin-off of DNAPrint's wholly-owned subsidiary, DNAPrint Pharmaceuticals Inc. Following the spin-off, the subsidiary would issue up to 2M shares of common stock to Dutchess as payment for amounts due under certain notes that were made by DNAPrint; Dutchess would be entitled to significant royalty income from the subsidiary and 4% of all DNAPrint sales, which would be credited toward retirement of the debt (7/31)
Panagene Inc.* Copenhagen Inventor Group Licensing agreement to sell PNA monomers Panagene will synthesize, manufacture and sell peptide nucleic acids monomers for use by researchers (7/3)
ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (Canada; TSX:PLI) A European plasma fractionator Development contract for 12 months to use prion-binding ligands to minimize the risk of transmission by plasma-derived products Contract is worth $1.7M (7/3)
Protein Polymer Technologies Inc. (OTC BB:PPTI) Unnamed medical device company Agreement to provide genetically engineered protein polymer biomaterials for use in drug discovery applications Terms of the deal were not disclosed (7/9)
Senomyx Inc. (SNMX) Kraft Foods Global Inc. Extended a discovery and development collaboration through December 2008 Kraft Foods will continue evaluation of flavor modifiers under development by Senomyx in the dessert and powdered beverage categories (7/19)
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