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Novartis enlists Tscan to discover new TCR therapies with $30M up front

April 15, 2020
By Michael Fitzhugh
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Less than a year after backing Tscan Therapeutics Inc.'s $48 million series B round, Novartis AG is tapping the Waltham, Mass.-based company to discover and develop new T-cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T-cell therapies for up to three new solid tumor targets. The collaboration includes an up-front technology access fee and research funding totaling $30 million, as well as potential clinical, regulatory and sales-based milestone payments that could total hundreds of millions of dollars, Tscan said.
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Zai Lab obtains greater China rights for Regeneron’s oncology candidate

April 14, 2020
By David Ho
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HONG KONG – China and U.S.-based Zai Lab Ltd. has signed on to develop and commercialize REGN-1979, a CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Tarrytown, N.Y.
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MEI oh MEI: Kirin pact for FL therapy brings $100M up front

April 14, 2020
By Randy Osborne
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Arriving at MEI Pharma Inc.’s deal with Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd., focused on phase II-stage ME-401 for B-cell malignancies, was a competitive process that brought large and midsized pharma bidders to the table, MEI Chief Operating Officer David Urso said, but the terms proposed by suitors tended to “look a lot the same.”
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Sanofi, GSK team up on COVID-19 vaccine development

April 14, 2020
By Cormac Sheridan
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DUBLIN – Sanofi SA and Glaxosmithkline plc are lending their considerable weight to the urgent global effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 by teaming up to develop an adjuvanted recombinant subunit vaccine that will employ technologies from each company. Paris-based Sanofi is contributing its recombinant spike protein antigen and its baculovirus expression system, which is also the basis of its U.S.-licensed influenza vaccine Flublok. London-based GSK is contributing its pandemic adjuvant technology.
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One Drop acquires assets of Sano Intelligence

April 13, 2020
By Annette Boyle
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Informed Data Systems Inc., doing business as One Drop, purchased the assets and intellectual property of Sano Intelligence Inc. for an undisclosed amount. San Francisco-based Sano has been developing a wearable continuous glucose sensor that enables users to track blood glucose levels and other blood chemistry via a smart phone app for nearly a decade. One Drop will integrate the stick-on device into its personalized digital care program for diabetics and people with other chronic conditions.
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Newly renamed Cytiva retains heart of GE Healthcare’s biopharma manufacturing unit

April 13, 2020
By Nuala Moran
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LONDON – These are hardly times for a fanfare, but this month saw the unveiling of a new name in bioprocessing, following the formal closing of the $21.4 billion sale of GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences to Danaher Corp. The business, now renamed Cytiva, has turnover of $3.3 billion, nearly 7,000 employees and operations in 40 countries. More than 75% of FDA-approved biologic drugs use its products in their manufacture.
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Alnylam’s $2B deal with Blackstone designed to advance RNAi development

April 13, 2020
By Lee Landenberger
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A $2 billion deal with Blackstone Group Inc. is setting Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. up so that it doesn’t have worry about future equity financing and instead can concentrate on RNAi R&D.
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Zai Lab obtains greater China rights for Regeneron’s oncology candidate

April 9, 2020
By David Ho
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HONG KONG – China and U.S.-based Zai Lab Ltd. has signed on to develop and commercialize REGN-1979, a CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Tarrytown, N.Y.
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No desert for offers: Arrakis waited for right partner in multibillion-dollar Roche deal

April 8, 2020
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Arrakis Therapeutics Inc.’s CEO, Michael Gilman, knew his 3-year-old company had a partnering tiger by the tail just by the amount of interest from companies who wanted to partner. He sat back and waited until the right offer came along and went with Roche Holding AG. The result is a massive collaboration and license agreement that could stretch into the billions of dollars. “We very deliberately stayed out of partnering discussions for the first couple years,” Gilman told BioWorld. “It took a while to figure out how to do this. We wanted to understand what we had before selling off parts of it.”
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I-Mab scores regional deal for two candidates; submits IND for COVID-19 candidate in U.S. and South Korea

April 7, 2020
By David Ho
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HONG KONG – China’s I-Mab Biopharma Co. Ltd. has entered a strategic partnership with Indonesia’s PT Kalbe Genexine Biologics (KG Bio). Through the deal, KG Bio will receive the right of first negotiation to commercialize two I-Mab-discovered candidates in the ASEAN and MENA regions as well as Sri Lanka.
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