Bayer AG and Cedilla Therapeutics Inc. have entered into an exclusive license agreement to develop and commercialize Cedilla Therapeutics' cyclinE1/cyclin dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) complex inhibitors, which selectively address oncogenic drivers.
Xtalpi Inc. has entered into an artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration with Eli Lilly & Co. The collaboration, valued at up to $250 million in upfront and milestone payments, will leverage Xtalpi’s integrated AI capabilities and robotics platform to de novo design and deliver drug candidates for an undisclosed target. Xtalpi seeks to deliver a novel compound, which Lilly will pursue in clinical and commercial development.
Hilleman Laboratories Singapore Pte Ltd. and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have established a collaboration to explore using novel circular ribonucleic acid (circRNA) technology to develop a Nipah virus vaccine and to validate the technology platform for application for other infectious diseases pathogens.
Angelini Pharma SpA and JCR Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. have entered into an exclusive global development and commercialization agreement for the development of novel biologic therapies that applies J-Brain Cargo blood-brain barrier penetrating technology for the treatment of epilepsy, applying undisclosed effectors.
Amgen Inc. and Tscan Therapeutics Inc. have entered into a multi-year collaboration that will use Tscan’s proprietary target discovery platform, Targetscan, to identify the antigens recognized by T cells in patients with Crohn’s disease.
XNK Therapeutics AB has entered into a preclinical research agreement with a global pharma company to study XNK’s autologous natural killer (NK) cell therapy candidate XNK-04 in combination with a well-documented PD-L1 antibody in liver cancer.
Generate Biomedicines Inc. and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have established a strategic collaboration to jointly discover and codevelop protein therapeutics for up to five oncology targets in advanced cancers, including small-cell and non-small-cell lung cancer.