Company* (Country; Symbol) |
Company* (Country; Symbol) |
Type/Product Area | Terms/Details (Date) |
Avexa Ltd. (Australia; ASX:AVX) |
Novasep* (France) | Manufacturing agreement for the production of apricitabine, Avexa's nucleoside reverse trans-criptase inhibitor for HIV | Terms cover the continued production, process optimization and further scale-up of ATC's active pharmaceutical ingredient (2/15) |
Bioenvision Inc. (BIVN) |
Foster Corp.* | Agreement for exclusive rights to manufacture, market and distribute Oligon, technology based on the antimicrobial properties of silver ions | Bioenvision will have a revenue-sharing arrangement on future sublicenses and a royalty on all sales by Foster (2/1) |
Biotest AG (Germany; FSE:BIO) |
CMC Biopharmaceuticals A/S* (Denmark) | A deal to manufacture the BT-062 antibody being developed for treating multiple myeloma | Further terms were not disclosed (2/5) |
Cytonet GmbH & Co. KG* (Germany) |
Vesta Therapeutics Inc.* | Liver cell products for Cytonet's clinical trials | Manufacturing agreement under which Vesta is to construct a production facility in accordance with European standards; financial terms were not disclosed (1/16) |
Cytori Therapeutics Inc. (CYTX) |
MBA Grupo* (Italy) |
Agreement to distribute the Celution System in Spain, Italy and Portugal starting in early 2008 for reconstructive surgery applications | The Celution System is a medical device designed to remove a patient's own stem and regenerative cells from their fat tissue; financial terms were not disclosed (2/20) |
Durect Corp.(DRRX) | Corium International Inc.* |
Long-term manufacturing and supply agreement to produce clinical and commercial supplies of Transdur-Bupivacaine, a transdermal pain patch in development for post-herpetic neuralgia | The product is in Phase II trials in about 50 patients; Corium will provide Transdur-Bupivacaine on a worldwide basis (2/5) |
Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ISPH) |
InSite Vision Inc. (AMEX:ISV) |
Collaboration giving Inspire exclusive rights in the U.S.and Canada to AzaSite for ocular infections | InSite is getting $13M up front and another $19M upon FDA approval; it also would pay InSite sales royalties of 20% in the first two years of commercialization and 25% in subsequent years (2/19) |
Ovation Pharmaceuticals Inc.* |
Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ENZN) | Ovation will supply the active ingredient for Enzon's Oncaspar through 2006, under an extension to existing deal | Oncospar is a pegylated form of L-asparaginase for treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Enzon also made a payment for a nonexclusive license to the cell line from which the material is sourced (12/4)# |
Pro-Pharma- ceuticals Inc. (AMEX:PRW) |
Chemwerth Inc.* | Collaboration to scale-up production of Davanat to 100 kg for initial marketing needs | Davanat is a carbohydrate polymer composed of mannose and galactose; the company is seeking approval of Davanat to be used with 5-Fluorouracil for intravenous injection to treat cancer (2/20) |
Uluru Inc. (OTC BB:ULUR) |
BioProgress plc (UK; BPRG) | Strategic partnership to market OraDisc B in the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Middle Eastern markets | The product, developed from Uluru's adhesive film technology, incorporates 15 mg of benzocaine for treating oral pain; terms call for an up-front fee and future milestone payments to Uluru (2/8) |
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (NYSE:VRX) |
Cambridge Laboratories Ltd.* (UK) | Valeant acquired commercial rights to nabilone in the UK and other European markets for $14M | Valeant markets nabilone in the U.S. and Canada under the brand name Cesamet; it is indicated for nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy (2/19) |
VaxGen Inc. (PK:VXGN) |
Celltrion Inc. (South Korea) |
VaxGen sold most of it of its remaining stake in Celltrion for $51.3M | Nexol Co. Ltd. and affiliated companies in June paid $79M for VaxGen's 62% stake in the manufacturing facility (1/3) |
ViaCell Inc. (VIAC) |
Invitrogen Corp. (IVGN) |
Agreement for Invitrogen to manufacture ViaCell's Viacyte media | The media will be used in ViaCell's pivotal clinical trial to evaluate the cryop-reservation and thawing of human oocytes (2/12) |
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