Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 3, 2023

Ablaze Pharmaceuticals is set to develop a new GPC3-targeted peptide drug candidate for the treatment of liver cancer in China. The company is licensing the first-in-class drug candidate under an existing deal with RayzeBio. The agreement allows Ablaze to clinically develop and commercialise the drug in Greater China.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The startup, which aims to develop lower-cost alternatives to branded medicines, has licensed two drugs from CStone Pharmaceuticals in a deal that could signal a coming price war in cancer immunotherapy.

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Bio Pharma Dive

MARCH 27, 2023

Vertex will license CRISPR technology to develop insulin-producing islet cells that are more resistant to immune rejection, adding to other efforts directed at Type 1 diabetes.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Ast ellas Pharma has announced plans to make a strategic investment to back the development of Taysha Gene Therapies’ adeno-associated virus (AAV) development programmes for Rett syndrome and giant axonal neuropathy (GAN). This would allow the companies to boost the development of new therapy options for Rett syndrome and GAN patients.

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Bio Pharma Dive

MARCH 3, 2025

Callio Therapeutics is launching with an ADC technology and programs licensed from Singapore-based antibody drug developer Hummingbird Bioscience.

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Camargo

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Camargo’s “In the News” series highlights important changes and advancements in the regulatory and development space and explores how those changes could impact your program. Unpacking the (Black) Box: Antares Licenses Urology Product with Boxed Warning. of hyponatremia, or low blood sodium levels.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ReviR Therapeutics has signed a research collaboration and option-to-license agreement with Asieris Pharmaceuticals to discover new oncology therapeutics. ReviR combines computational and high throughput drug discovery technologies to deliver advanced medicines to patients.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 15, 2025

AbbVie and Simcere Zaiming have announced an option-to-license agreement for the development of an investigational drug candidate, SIM0500.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JUNE 21, 2024

Elsewhere, Vanda rejected two takeover bids and Ashibio emerged from stealth with an antibody licensed from Gilead. A medicine Jazz acquired in 2019 missed the goal of a Phase 2 study.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2023

LegoChem Biosciences has entered an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Glycotope to develop an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC).

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 13, 2024

AbbVie agrees $1.7bn deal with China's FutureGen to license an anti-TL1A inflammatory bowel disease therapy still in preclinical development

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A subcutaneous version of Daiichi Sankyo’s AstraZeneca-partnered blockbuster antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) Enhertu could be in the works from Korea’s Alteogen following a licensing deal worth up to | Alteogen will use its human hyaluronidase hybridization platform to develop a subcutaneous formulation of the blockbuster antibody-drug conjugate.

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Camargo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Each month, Camargo’s “In the News” series highlights important changes and advancements in the regulatory and development space and explores how those changes could impact your program. Approval of the Month: Repurposed Transplant Drug Approved Based Only on Real-World Evidence. Over about three pages, 13 questions were posed.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 5, 2023

Capsida Biotherapeutics and Eli Lilly and Company ’s wholly owned subsidiary Prevail Therapeutics have announced a partnership for the development of non-invasive gene therapies for central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The post Capsida Biotherapeutics and Prevail to develop CNS gene therapies appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2022

LegoChem Biosciences and Amgen have signed a multi-target research collaboration and license agreement to develop antibody-drug conjugates (ADC). As per the terms of the agreement, LegoChem will receive up to $1.25bn in upfront, development and commercial milestone payments from Amgen.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 8, 2025

As part of the agreement, Sanofi will provide Alloy with upfront license fees and near-term preclinical milestone payments up to $27.5m.

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Bio Pharma Dive

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The latest deal in AI drug discovery is a twist on the usual big pharma-startup collaboration model, with Insitro licensing technology and Lilly eligible for royalties.

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Pharma Mirror

APRIL 18, 2023

Dudley, UK, April 18th 2023: Sterling Pharma Solutions, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation, today announced that it has been granted a Manufacturer’s Authorisation for Investigational Medicinal Products from the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 19, 2023

ImmunoForge has expanded its licence agreement with Duke University in North Carolina, US, to jointly improve research and drug development opportunities. ImmunoForge chief technology officer Dr Jim Balance pioneered the clinical development of peptide drugs genetically fused to ELPs.

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Outsourcing Pharma

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A breast cancer drug that has been used for many years to treat the disease, has been licensed today (November 7) as a preventative measure.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 10, 2023

Astellas has licensed rights to a drug developed by Selecta Biosciences that could make more patients eligible for treatment with its gene therapy for inherited neuromuscular disorder Pompe disease. The post Astellas licenses companion drug for Pompe gene therapy appeared first on.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 10, 2023

Gilead Sciences has emerged victorious in a legal battle with the US government over patents surrounding the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs Descovy and Truvada following a federal jury’s verdict on May 9. This marks a significant development in a tumultuous dispute between the pharmaceutical company and the US government.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 28, 2022

Rezafungin is a new, once-weekly echinocandin antifungal being developed by Cidara to treat and prevent serious fungal infections such as candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults. It is also being developed for invasive fungal infection prophylaxis in adults who undergo allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

Biogen has exercised an option to license Denali Therapeutics ’ (Denali) programme to develop immunotherapies for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Under the terms, Biogen will handle all the development and commercial activities of ATV: Aβ, along with the related expenses.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 28, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Orphan Drug Designation to Editas Medicine’s gene therapy EDIT-301 in sickle cell disease, based on an April 27 announcement. The US agency previously granted the Orphan Drug Designation to EDIT-301 for its study in beta thalassemia, in May 2022.

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Pharma Mirror

OCTOBER 1, 2022

HK), an innovation and R&D-driven pharmaceutical company; today announced that they have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement for Simcere’s IL-2 mutant fusion protein (IL-2 mu-Fc) autoimmune drug candidate, SIM0278. Simcere will retain all rights to develop and commercialise SIM0278 within Greater China.

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Outsourcing Pharma

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The big pharma company AstraZeneca has forged a licensing pact worth $2 billion with the Chinese firm CSPC Pharmaceutical Group for access to an experimental small molecule treatment for dyslipidemia.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Sosei Heptares oral IBD drug was first licensed to GSK in 2020 and is currently in Phase I clinical development.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sosei Heptares , a corporate brand of Sosei Group Corporation, has signed a new drug discovery partnership and option-to-license agreement with AbbVie for discovering, developing and marketing new therapies for neurological ailments. On signing of the deal, AbbVie will make an upfront payment of $40m to Sosei Heptares.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An investigational Covid-19 drug, ensitrelvir is an inhibitor of 3CL protease. Developed under joint research between Shionogi and Hokkaido University, the antiviral averts SARS-CoV-2 replication by hindering 3CL protease. The post Shionogi and MPP enter Covid-19 antiviral licensing deal appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Camargo

MAY 10, 2021

Each month, Camargo’s “In the News” series highlights important changes and advancements in the regulatory and development space and explores how those changes could impact your program. The members of the ODAC voted to continue the use of four of the six drugs it discussed during the meeting, despite failed clinical trials.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 6, 2023

Dutch biotechnology company Synaffix and Amgen have entered a licensing agreement for the development of next-generation antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). For four future programmes, Amgen will also have an option for exercising exclusive licenses for research and commercialisation.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 23, 2023

Takeda has signed an exclusive licence agreement with HUTCHMED (China) and its subsidiary HUTCHMED to develop and market the latter’s fruquintinib. We look forward to utilising our development and commercial capabilities to expand the potential of this innovative medicine to patients beyond China.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

South Korean biotechnology company Qurient has entered a licence agreement with TB Alliance for the development and commercialisation of telacebec (Q203). Under the deal, TB Alliance will have the exclusive global license to develop and market telacebec except in Russia, South Korea, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.

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Outsourcing Pharma

JULY 18, 2023

Roche has entered a licensing and collaboration deal with the U.S. company KSQ Therapeutics to co-develop KSQâs lead cancer drug, which is designed to sabotage the DNA repair mechanisms of cancer cells.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 6, 2023

Danish biotech company Adcendo has entered into a licence agreement with Duality Biologics on the next-generation antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) platform. The post Adcendo and Duality Biologics sign license deal for ADC platform appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

Japan-based Astellas Pharma has entered a partnership with Cullgen to discover and develop multiple targeted protein degraders through the latter’s proprietary uSMITE targeted protein degradation platform, in a deal potentially worth $1.9bn. Astellas could pay Cullgen up to $85m upon using its license option regarding the deal.

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