mRNA licensing agreements surge 800% amid GSK lawsuits
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 18, 2024
An 800% increase in licensing deal values indicates growing confidence in mRNA technology, but some vaccine producers are facing lawsuits.
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Pharmanovia signs license agreement for Lindis Biotech’s catumaxomab
Pharmaceutical Technology
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Pharmanovia has signed a licensing agreement with Lindis Biotech to commercialise catumaxomab for malignant ascites.
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Astellas application rejected by FDA; Cytokinetics strikes licensing deal with Bayer
Bio Pharma Dive
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Elsewhere, former NCI director Ned Sharpless founded a new startup and Novartis licensed another radiopharma drug. The agency turned back Astellas’ attempt to update its drug Izervay’s labeling.
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MSD secures worldwide license for LaNova’s LM-299
Pharmaceutical Technology
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
MSD has secured an exclusive worldwide license from LaNova Medicines for developing, manufacturing, and commercialising the latter’s new investigational programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)/vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) bispecific antibody, LM-299.
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Clearmind licenses psychedelic compounds for mental disorders
Pharmaceutical Technology
APRIL 18, 2024
Clearmind Medicine has entered into a licensing agreement with Yissum to develop Generation 3.0 psychedelic compounds for mental disorders.
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GSK to pay $300M to license drug it sees as potential lupus treatment
Bio Pharma Dive
OCTOBER 29, 2024
The licensing deal with China’s Chimagen Biosciences is the latest example of drugmaker interest in exploring the potential of “T cell engagers” in autoimmune disease.
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Almirall licenses IL-21 antibody from Novo Nordisk
Pharmaceutical Technology
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Almirall has signed a licensing agreement for the acquisition of worldwide rights to Novo Nordisk’s IL21-hindering antibody NN-8828.
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Anocca signs licensing deal for EmendoBio’s gene-editing tech
Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 15, 2024
Anocca has entered a licensing agreement with EmendoBio for the use of the latter’s OMNI-A4 nuclease, a gene editing technology.
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XtalPi’s AI biologics discovery platform licensed to Janssen Biotech
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2024
XtalPi's AI biologics discovery platform, XtalFold, has been licensed to Janssen Biotech for advanced biotherapeutics development.
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MaxCyte and Kamau Therapeutics sign platform license agreement
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
MaxCyte has entered into a license agreement with Kamau Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company focused on stem cell therapy gene correction.
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Takeda nabs option to license Alzheimer’s immunotherapies from AC Immune
Bio Pharma Dive
MAY 13, 2024
The deal — worth $100 million up front and potentially billions more later on — gives Takeda an exclusive option to license an Alzheimer’s vaccine and other “active immunotherapies.”
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Specialised Therapeutics partners with Treeway to license ALS drug
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 28, 2023
Specialised Therapeutics has entered into a licensing agreement with Treeway for TW001, designed for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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J&J jumps on ADC train, signs $1.7bn licensing deal with LegoChem
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 28, 2023
J&J has acquired a global license for South Korean LegoChem’s ADC for $100m upfront along with milestone-based payments and tiered royalties.
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Sanofi signs radioligand therapy licensing deal for rare cancers
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Sanofi has signed a licensing agreement with RadioMedix and Orano Med to advance a radioligand therapy, AlphaMedix.
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Daiichi Sankyo links up with Korea's Alteogen on subcutaneous Enhertu in $300M licensing deal
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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AstraZeneca licenses CSPC’s cardiovascular drug in $2 billion deal
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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Enveric Biosciences to out-license psilocin prodrug to MindBio
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 15, 2024
Enveric Biosciences has entered a non-binding term sheet with MindBio Therapeutics to out-license a class of psilocin prodrugs.
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Licensing agreements for innovator GLP1R drugs weigh in with over $6.2bn in 2024
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 21, 2024
Innovator drugs targeting GLP1R witnessed a 595% increase in total licensing agreement deal value from 2019 to 2024 YTD.
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TN govt appoints M N Sridhar as state licensing authority & controlling authority for DC department
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
JUNE 26, 2024
The Tamil Nadu government has appointed the incumbent controlling authority (CA) of the drugs control administration, M N Sridhar, as state licensing and controlling authority (SLA and CA) for the department of drugs control from June 18 onwards.
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Genezen to license CSL’s lentiviral vector production system
Pharmaceutical Technology
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Contract development and manufacturing organisation Genezen has announced plans to license CSL’s Cytegrity lentivirus production system.
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Ayush Ministry to amend D&C Rules mandating cGMP for homoeopathic drug manufacturing license
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The Union Ministry of Ayush will soon amend the Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945 to mandate good manufacturing practices for Homoeopathy drug manufacturing, stipulating procedures for loan licensing in the system of Homoeopathy and specifying timelines for issuance of license, among others.
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Benefits of Drug Patent Licensing Agreements
Drug Patent Watch
JULY 30, 2024
The Power of Patent Licensing: Unlocking Innovation and Access to Medicines Patent licensing agreements have become a crucial tool in the pharmaceutical industry, allowing companies to collaborate and…
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Ono, Boehringer add to cancer pipelines with licensing deals
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Ono Pharma and Boehringer Ingelheim both added to their cancer pipelines, licensing drugs from LigaChem Bio and Circle Pharma, respectively.Ono's deal with South Korean antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) specialist LigaChem is worth up to $700 million and covers a license to a preclinical-stage candidate for solid tumours, as well as an R&D collaboration (..)
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Cristália signs licensing deal for Formosa’s APP13007
Pharmaceutical Technology
JANUARY 29, 2024
Cristália has signed an agreement to license exclusive rights to market Formosa Pharmaceuticals’ APP13007 in Brazil.
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Sanofi signs $1.2bn licensing agreement for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 10, 2024
Sanofi has signed a $1.2bn licensing agreement with Novavax to co-commercialise its stand-alone adjuvanted Covid-19 vaccine.
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Astria to license Ichnos Sciences’ OX40 portfolio
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Astria Therapeutics has signed a global exclusive agreement to license Ichnos Sciences’ OX40 portfolio for treating atopic dermatitis (AD).
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Licensing regime posing challenge to micro and small medical devices industry: SMTA
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Central government’s actions to mandate licensing of all medical devices is posing a challenge to the industry, especially the micro and small enterprises in the sector, says the Surgical Manufacturers and Traders Association (SMTA), the pan India organisation of manufacturers and traders of surgical equipment for healthcare services providers (..)
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uniQure signs license deal for Apic Bio’s gene therapy for SOD1-ALS
Pharmaceutical Technology
JANUARY 31, 2023
Gene therapy company uniQure has entered into a global licensing agreement with Apic Bio for APB-102 to treat patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). The post uniQure signs license deal for Apic Bio’s gene therapy for SOD1-ALS appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.
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IMIDomics to license TNAX’s drug candidate for IMIDs
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
IMIDomics has entered an agreement to license TNAX Biopharma’s IMB1001 to treat immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs).
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AbbVie licenses OSE’s chronic inflammation therapy for $48m upfront
Pharmaceutical Technology
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
AbbVie will pay $48m in upfront costs and up to $665m in milestone payments to license OSE’s monoclonal antibody OSE-230.
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Specialised Therapeutics licenses CanariaBio’s ovarian cancer antibody
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Specialised Therapeutics has entered an agreement to license Korea-based CanariaBio’s oregovomab for treating ovarian cancer.
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CDSCO reminds medical device firms to pay retention fee to continue holding licenses & certificates
AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog
MAY 23, 2024
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has requested all stakeholders in the medical devices sector to deposit the requisite fee for retention of license or registration certificate under the Medical Devices Rules (MDR), 2017, well before the stipulated timeline in order to avoid cancellation of the approvals.The drug regulator, in (..)
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Advanz wins stay on EU revocation of Ocaliva license
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
EU General Court suspends decision to revoke the license for Advanz Pharma's primary biliary cholangitis drug Ocaliva.
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Coeptis licenses Deverra Therapeutics’ clinical stage assets
Pharmaceutical Technology
AUGUST 18, 2023
Coeptis Therapeutics has exclusively licensed allogeneic immuno-oncology platform and clinical stage assets from Deverra Therapeutics.
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Roche licenses Sangamo’s technology for another shot at Alzheimer’s drugs
Bio Pharma Dive
AUGUST 6, 2024
Through a new deal, Roche has exclusive rights to Sangamo molecules designed to repress the gene that makes “tau,” a protein many scientists view as a main driver of Alzheimer’s.
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Novo sheds kidney drug licensed for $1.3bn a year ago
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Novo Nordisk has abandoned a drug it licensed from KBP Biosciences last year in a deal valued at up to $1.3
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Vertex licenses Editas’ gene editing technology in $100m deal
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The payment, which encompasses newly approved Casgevy, is the latest deal in a long line of CRISPR licensing twists and turns.
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Biogen licenses a stroke drug from Japanese drugmaker TMS
Bio Pharma Dive
MAY 12, 2021
The drug, which Biogen had an option to license, is one of two in the biotech's pipeline for a condition that has had few new treatments developed.
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Sanofi bows to FTC demands and ends Maze licensing deal
Pharmaceutical Technology
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The license of Maze’s GYS1 program, including MZE-001, was the subject of FTC opposition, leading to Sanofi terminating the agreement
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CRISPR drug licensing deals secure $21bn in top three therapy areas over five years
Pharmaceutical Technology
MARCH 28, 2024
Licensing agreements for innovator drugs utilising clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technologies saw oncology, immunology, and central nervous system as the top three therapy areas by total deal value with a combined $21bn over the past five years.
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Reset Pharma partners with Filament to license psilocybin drug
Pharmaceutical Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Reset Pharma has entered a licensing agreement with Filament for psilocybin drug PEX010, designed for treating demoralisation syndrome.
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Investors put $400M into biotech licensing obesity drugs from China
Bio Pharma Dive
MAY 16, 2024
The biotech, tentatively named Hercules CM Newco, has rights to three incretin drugs discovered by Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, two of which are in clinical testing.
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