Company*
(Country;
Symbol)
Company*
(Country;
Symbol)
Product Terms/Details (Date)


Althea
Technologies
Inc.*

PowderMed Ltd.* (UK)

Althea was awarded a contract to produce a plasmid DNA-based vaccine against influenza

The effort will combine Althea's plasmid DNA production method and PowderMed's PMED non-needle injection method; terms of the contract were not disclosed (6/20)

Auxilium
Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(AUXL)

Cobra Biologics Ltd. (UK; AIM:CBF)

Deal for the manufacture of additional cGMP and BLA batches of Auxilium's AA4500

The companies later will discuss a nonex- clusive long-term supply agreement under which Cobra would manufacture the injectable enzyme (7/17)

VaxGen Inc.
(PK:VXGN)

Celltrion Inc. (South Korea)

Vaxgen sold about 62% of its 21% stake in the Celltrion manufacturing facility for $79M

Another $50.3M is expected to be realized in 2006 through the sale of the remaining stake; the shares were purchased by Nexol Co. Ltd. and affiliated companies (6/29)


Notes:

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