Company*
(Country;
Symbol)

Company

Type/Product Area

Terms/Details (Date)


Avant Immuno-
therapeutics
Inc.
(AVAN)

Paul Royalty
Fund II LP

Paul Royalty purchased an interest in royalties Avant will receive from sales of Rotarix by GlaxoSmithKline plc

Avant gets $10M and would get $40M upon product launch in Europe and about $10M upon launch in the U.S.; Avant also retained an interest in royalties from the product, which is used against rotavirus infections (5/18)

Diversa Corp.
(DVSA)

Bio Integration Technology Inc. (China)

Collaboration to identify opportunities for Diversa's enzyme products in the Chinese oil and gas industry

Terms of the deal were not disclosed (4/25)

Geneva
Bioinformatics

SA*
(Switzerland)

Hitachi Software Enginerring Co. Ltd. (Japan)

Hitachi will distribute GeneBio's Phenyx software platform in the Japanese market

The platform is used to identify and characterize proteins and peptides from mass spectrometry data; terms of the deal were not disclosed (6/2)

Genaissance Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(GNSC)

INC
Research

Genaissance will provide pharmacogenetic clinical development services to clients of INC

INC is a contract research organization; terms of the deal were not disclosed (6/7)

LineaGen Research
Corp.*
and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center

IBM

Collaboration to create a clinical genomics infrastructure designed to accelerate the molecular understanding of complex diseases

IBM initially will integrate Utah population databases into its Clinical Genomics Solution; future phases will center on development of tools to support molecular models of genetic disease (5/18)

PharmaFrontiers
Corp.
(OTC BB:
PFTR)

INC
Research
Inc.*

Deal under which INC will manage PharmaFrontiers' multiple sclerosis development program

INC is a contract research organization; PharmaFrontiers' MS product Tovaxin is moving into Phase II trials; terms of the deal were not disclosed (5/3)

Senomyx Inc.
(SNMX)

Kraft Foods Global Inc.

They extended the research phase of their collaboration to discover flavor modifiers in the dessert category

The deal was extended to July 30, 2005; Senomyx gets research funding and is entitled to royalties on any resulting sales (5/2)

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(SPPI)

Robert E.
Bases

Spectrum acquired rights to lucanthone, a radiation sensitizer in Phase II trials

Bases is inventor of a method of treating cancer of the central nervous system through the administration of lucanthone and radiation; terms were not disclosed (5/17)


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