Company*
(Country;
Symbol)

Company

Type/Product Area

Terms/Details (Date)


Diversa Corp.
(DVSA)

Cargill Health and Food Technologies

Collaboration to develop enzymes for the cost-effective production of an undisclosed product

Diversa gets up-front payments and research funding, and is entitled to milestone payments, license fees and royalties on resulting products (4/11)

Geneva
Bioinformatics
SA*
(Switzerland)

Current Science Group (UK)

They formed a joint venture company named Current BioData Ltd.

The new company will focus on the further development and marketing of GeneBio's ProXenter discovery platform (3/3)

Senomyx
Inc.
(SNMX)

Nestle SA (Switzerland)

They extended for three years a deal to discover novel flavors and flavor enhancers in the dehydrated and culinary food and frozen food fields

The initial three-year deal was signed in 2002; Senomyx will get funding of up to $6.6M in the extension, and would get royalties on any resulting sales (4/20)

Vion
Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(VION)

B&P Co. Inc.

B&P got nonexclusive rights to use Vion's Melasyn technology

B&P plans to develop cosmetic products incorporating Melasyn, a synthetic form of melanin; Vion would get royalties on sales in countries where it has patents (4/15)

Xenogen Corp.
(XGEN)

MIR Preclinical Services

MIR purchased and sub- licensed Xenogen's biophotonic imaging technologies

The contract research organization got rights to use the technology in preclinical research except in infectious diseases (4/12)


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