Arena Pharmaceuticals in License Pact
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Arena Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company, and Outpost Medicine, a Lexington, Massachusetts-headquartered biopharmaceutical company focused on treatments for urologic and gynecologic diseases and disorders, have formed a licensing agreement…

Biogen Exercises Option for Investigational Alzheimer’s Disease Drug
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Biogen has exercised its option in an agreement with Neurimmune, a Zurich, Switzerland-based biopharmaceutical company, to further reduce previously negotiated royalty rates payable on potential future sales of aducanumab, Biogen’s…

Novartis, Pear Therapeutics To Market Digital Therapeutics
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Sandoz, Novartis’ generics arm, has partnered with Pear Therapeutics, a Boston, Massachusetts-based prescription digital therapeutics company, to commercialize Pear Therapeutics’ two lead products, reSET and reSET-O, digital therapeutics for treating…

Sanofi, Berkeley Lights in Cell-Line Development Pact
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Sanofi has purchased a platform from Berkeley Lights, an Emeryville, California-headquartered company developing platforms for biopharmaceutical processes, to accelerate its cell-line development process. Based on data from a pilot study,…

Biogen, Ionis Expand Neurological Disease Pact for $1 Billion
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Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, a Carlsbad, California-based pharmaceutical company, have expanded their collaboration through a new 10-year collaboration agreement to develop antisense drug candidates for a range of neurological diseases…

Roche’s Genentech, Kineta in $359-million Pact for Non-Opioid Pain Therapy
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Genentech, a Roche company, has signed an option and license agreement with Kineta Chronic Pain, a subsidiary of Kineta, a biopharmaceutical company, to develop Kineta’s α9/α10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)…

BI, Lilly To Test Diabetes Drug Jardiance in Kidney Disease
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Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Eli Lilly and Company have partnered in an academic collaboration with the University of Oxford to investigate the effects of the companies’ diabetes drug, Jardiance (empagliflozin),…

BMS, Illumina Partner on Companion Diagnostics
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Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Illumina, a San Diego, California-headquartered company developing and commercializing systems for analysis of genetic variation and function, have partnered to use Illumina’s sequencing technology to develop…

Celgene, bluebird bio Partner in CAR-T Therapies
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Celgene Corporation and bluebird bio, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based clinical-stage gene-therapy company, have agreed to co-develop and co-promote bb2121, an investigational anti-B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell…

Daiichi Sankyo in Cancer Target Pact
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Daiichi Sankyo Company and DarwinHealth, a New York-headquartered technology-focused cancer medicine company, have formed a research agreement providing Daiichi Sankyo with exclusive access to DarwinHealth’s proprietary cancer target database in…