Biotechnology Company Deals With Miscellaneous Companies: Collaborations, Agreements, Equity Participation, April 24 - June 18, 2003#
Company* | Company* | Type/Product Area | Terms/Details (Date) |
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Acacia Research | Toppan Printing Corp. (Japan; Pink Sheets:TONPF) | Multiyear alliance to develop and manufacture microarrays with an electrochemical detection approach | Toppan will pay CombiMatrix, a unit of Acacia, a $1M up-front fee and additional development and milestone payments (5/9) |
Lynx Therapeutics Inc. (LYNX) and the Institute for Systems Biology | IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) | Collaboration to study how cells of the immune system respond to infectious diseases | Lynx's Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing technology will be used to generate gene expression profiles provided by the ISB for the study of inflammatory response to microbial infection; IBM will provide middleware for managing and analyzing the data (6/5) |
MWG Biotech AG (Germany; FSE:NWUG) | Hitachi Software Engineering (Japan; Pink Sheets:HCHIF) | Agreement for MWG to license rights to DNA microarrays based on its Oligo Set technology for Japanese sales to Hitachi | Hitachi will use the sets of complete human and mouse genomes for its range of microarrays (5/6) |
RTS Life Science International* (UK) | Syrrx Inc.* | Partnership to develop and market the HTSB Factory, which is integrated instrumentation for high-throughput structural biology | Financial terms were not disclosed (5/1) |
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# This chart does not include agreements that involve agricultural product development. | |||
* Private companies are indicated with an asterisk. | |||
Unless otherwise noted, the trading symbols listed for public companies are on the Nasdaq market. | |||
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