Category: Joint ventures/collaborations
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Biotech Partners for A.I. Drug Discovery in $1B Deal
Two companies are collaborating on the use of artificial intelligence to find new drugs addressing a set of proteins that regulate immune-related functions, including inflammation.
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Business-Foundation Alliance Funds Covid-19 Treatments
Two foundations and a credit card company are providing seed money for development and manufacture of treatments for the novel coronavirus or Covid-19 pandemic.
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Coffee, Hemp Cells Set for Space Station Study
A company is sending cell cultures from hemp and coffee plants to the International Space Station to test effects of weightlessness on the plants’ gene expression.
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Janssen, BARDA Partner on Coronavirus Vaccine
An industry-government collaboration aims to advance and produce vaccines against the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China and elsewhere.
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Incubator Seeks Heart, Lung, Blood Device Entrepreneurs
A business incubator in Massachusetts is seeking entrepreneurs and their companies developing medical devices for heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
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Companies Deploy Blockchain for Food Safety, Tracking
A company offering food and animal safety services is applying blockchain technologies to boost its livestock and food tracking capabilities.
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Intl Group Calls for More Coronavirus Vaccines
An international consortium issued a proposal call for more vaccines to protect against the novel coronavirus now spreading from China to the rest of the world.
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Univ. of Washington Opens Research Entrepreneurs Center
A new program at University of Washington helps biomedical researchers convert their discoveries into useful products or services for patients.
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Int’l Group Funding Coronavirus Vaccines
An international health coalition is funding development of vaccines against the new coronavirus outbreak spreading quickly through China and to other countries.
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Synthetic DNA Studied for Mass Data Storage
An industry-academic consortium received a U.S. government contract to develop coded synthetic polymer chemicals like DNA for reliably storing massive amounts of data.