| Biotech Co.* (Country; Symbol) |
Pharma Co. (Country) |
Product | Terms/Details (Date) |
ExonHit |
Agilent Technologies Inc. |
Agilent will market and sell nine different ExonHit human and mouse SpliceArrays as commercial products |
The deal on the microarray products expands upon an August 2005 agreement between the companies; terms of the deal were not disclosed (5/31) |
Iconic |
Laureate Pharma Inc. |
Deal for the manufacture of Iconic's hI-con1, a preclinical product candidate |
HI-con1 is a bifunctional immunoprotein; terms of the deal were not disclosed (5/10) |
Labopharm |
Glaxo Group Ltd. (UK) |
GSK got exclusive rights to distribute a once-daily tramadol product in Mexico |
GSK already had rights to Labopharm's product in 20 Latin American and Carib-bean countries; Labopharma is entitled to milestone and royalty payments (5/31) |
Merrimack |
Cambrex Bio Science Hopkinton Inc. (unit of Cambrex Corp.) |
Cambrex will produce clinical- trial quantities of Merrimack's MM-093, a recombinant version of human alpha-fetoprotein |
Terms of the production contract were not disclosed (5/23) |
Nonlinear |
Agilent Technologies Inc. |
Co-marketing deal to promote and distribute integrated analysis solutions |
The deal centers on synergies between the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer platform and Nonlinear's TL120 DM software; terms were not disclosed (5/11) |
Repros |
Gedeon Richter Ltd. (Hungary) |
Richter will develop and supply the active pharmaceutical ingredient for Repros' Proellex product |
Proellex is a progesterone receptor modulator in Phase II trials for treating uterine fibroids and endometriosis; terms of the deal were not disclosed (5/22) |
Unigene |
Tzamal Bio Pharma Ltd. (Israel) |
Tzamal got rights to distribute Unigene's Fortical nasal spray in Israel for the treatment of osteoporosis |
Tzamal is responsible for registering the product in Israel; Unigene would get a fixed price per unit received by Tzamal (5/10) |
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