R&D Trends

Hovione, Solvias collaborate to provide for improved drug solubility

Monday, December 3, 2012 10:54 AM

Hovione, a global group dedicated to the cGMP development and manufacture of APIs, and Solvia, a privately held solutions provider based in Basel, Switzerland, have established a collaboration focused on the development and GMP supply of pharmaceutical co-crystals.

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Selecta, Sanofi to develop antigen-specific immunotherapies for life-threatening allergies

Friday, November 30, 2012 10:55 AM

Selecta Biosciences, a Watertown, Mass.-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of synthetic vaccines and immunotherapies, has entered into a strategic global collaboration with global healthcare company Sanofi to discover highly targeted, antigen-specific immunotherapies for life-threatening allergies.

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Curis licensed IAP inhibitor GDC-0917 from Genentech

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 01:54 PM

Curis, a Lexington, Mass.-based drug development company focused on targeted small molecule drug candidates for cancer treatment, has licensed from San Francisco-based Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, exclusive worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of GDC-0917, a small molecule that is designed to promote cancer cell death by antagonizing inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) proteins.

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Roche, Broad Institute to identify novel uses for failed phase II compounds

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 01:39 PM

Roche, through its Translational and Clinical Research Center, and the Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center based in Cambridge, Mass., have signed a multi-year collaboration designed to identify novel indications for promising development-stage compounds using the Broad Institute's platforms of screening technologies.

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IntelliCell BioSciences inks research agreement with Rutgers’ N.J. Center for Biomaterials

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:16 AM

IntelliCell BioSciences, a regenerative medicine company developing novel technologies that address the regenerative, curative and preventative conditions of disease states with high unmet clinical needs, has entered a sponsored research agreement with the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey.

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NEOMED Institute aims to renew biopharmaceutical research in Québec

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:33 AM

AstraZeneca Canada and Pfizer Canada are forming a partnership with the Québec government to create the NEOMED Institute, a new kind of life sciences research center. A total of $100 million will be invested to establish and support the research center over five years.

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Shire, Boston Children's Hospital collaborate on rare pediatric diseases

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:54 AM

Boston Children’s Hospital and Shire, a specialty biopharmaceutical company based in Ireland, have signed a three-year, broad research collaboration in rare diseases.

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NeuroVive, Sihuan Pharma collaborate on CicloMulsion and NeuroSTAT in China

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:25 AM

NeuroVive, a mitochondrial medicine company based in Sweden, has signed a collaboration agreement with Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group, based in China, for the development and commercialization of NeuroVive's most clinically advanced products CicloMulsion and NeuroSTAT in China.

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Chiromics, BMS form drug discovery alliance

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 09:39 AM

Chiromics, a drug discovery company based in Princeton, N.J., has formed a strategic research alliance with global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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CFFT, Pfizer expand collaboration on cystic fibrosis by $58M

Monday, November 19, 2012 02:46 PM

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics (CFFT), the nonprofit drug discovery and development affiliate of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, has expanded its research collaboration with Pfizer designed to discover new drugs to treat people with the most common mutation of cystic fibrosis (CF), Delta F508.

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