Category: Joint ventures/collaborations
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Precision Medicine Trial Set for Pancreatic Cancer
A large-scale clinical trial is planned at 12 sites in the U.S. to test treatments for pancreatic cancer guided by the genomics of a patient’s own tumor.
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Spinal Cord Injury Rehab Device in Development
A robotic device to improve the balance of people going through rehabilitation after spinal cord injury is being developed by an engineering-medical team from Columbia University and University of Louisville.
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Genentech, BioNTech Partner on Personal Cancer Therapies
Biotechnology company BioNTech AG is licensing its messenger RNA technology and collaborating with biopharmaceutical company Genentech to develop personalized cancer immunotherapies.
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Teva Licenses Pain Relief Antibody for $1.25 Billion
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is licensing from biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals an engineered antibody that targets proteins supporting pain signals.
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St. Jude, Sanger Institute to Share Genomic Databases
Two research institutes — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute — will share their databases on cancer genomics with the other institution’s scientists.
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Challenge Seeks Health Technology Start-Ups
A new competition is seeking start-up enterprises worldwide to pitch their ideas for solving health care issues with technology directly to life sciences industry leaders.
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Small Business Grant Funds Natural Dyes Crop Research
A company making natural dyes for clothing and a plant science research center are discovering genomic processes to improve plants producing indigo, the dye giving blue jeans its color.
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Sanofi, Alphabet Create Diabetes Venture
Drug maker Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences, a division of Alphabet — parent company of Google — are creating Onduo, a joint venture to develop health management solutions for people with diabetes.
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Trial Testing Diabetes Drug as Parkinson’s Treatment
A clinical trial has started to test a current drug for type 2 diabetes as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
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Small Business Grant Funds Flu Therapy R&D
A biotechnology company in South Dakota is developing an influenza therapy, with backing from a National Institutes of Health program supporting research by small enterprises.