Biotech Co.* (Country/Symbol) | Biotech Co.* (Country/Symbol) | Product | Disclosed Funding (M) | Terms/Details (Date) |
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Avid Bio- | Inhibitex | Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies | ND | Manufacturing and supply agreement for antibodies that will be used in future clinical studies (3/19) |
Eos Biotech- | ICOS Corp. | CHEF1 enhanced mammalian protein expression technology | ND | A manufacturing and licensing agreement in which ICOS will produce Eos' lead monoclonal antibody candidate to clinical specifications for use in Phase I/II trials for the treatment of cancer (1/9) |
GenOdyssee | Transgenomic | Nucleic acid analysis services | ND | Service provider agreement in which Transgenomic will market and sell nucleic acid analysis services that will be performed by GenOdyssee Genetics, a division of GenOdyssee (1/9) |
Inhibitex | Nabi Inc. | INH-A21 | ND | Manufacturing agreement for 10 years for Inhibitex's lead product, INH-A21, at Nabi's Boca Raton facility (12/6) |
PPD Discovery | New England | Recombinant human cytochrome P450 enzymes | ND | New England Biolabs will produce and sell CYP450 enzymes under the Pharmazyme trademark and will pay PPD royalties; PPD also made an agreement for Cypex to manufacture, market and distribute P450 using the Pharmazyme technology (3/22) |
Seradyn Inc. | Avid Bio- | Raw material for a therapeutic drug monitoring kit | ND | Supply agreement in which Avid will manufacture the raw material for the kit distributed by Seradyn (3/6) |
VaxGen Inc. | Celltrion Inc. | AidsVax | $120 | The companies will invest $120M to build and operate a facility in Incheon, South Korea, to manufacture AidsVax; the venture also will fund a smaller facility in South San Francisco; VaxGen will provide mammalian cell culture technology and biologics production expertise to Celltrion, but no cash, in exchange for a 44% interest in the joint venture (2/25) |
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# The information in the chart does not cover agricultural agreements; * Private companies are indicated with an asterisk; unless otherwise noted, stock symbols listed are on the Nasdaq market | ||||
ND = Not disclosed, reported and/or available; NYSE = New York Stock Exchange |