Receptos, a biopharmaceutical company, has announced that Ono Pharmaceuticals has elected to amend and expand the existing collaboration agreement between the parties to include transfer to Ono of the Receptos G-protein-coupled receptor ...
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US-based life sciences venture capital firm Versant Ventures is expanding its operations into Canada in order to invest in early-stage drug discovery programs. The company has established an office in Vancouver this year and created a new ...
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UK-based drug discovery and development firm Summit has formed a strategic alliance with the University of Oxford in order to further strengthen its utrophin modulator program for the treatment of the fatal muscle wasting disease duchenne ...
France-based NovAliX has entered into a fragment-based drug discovery project with Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Kyowa Hakko Kirin. The deal, which is a continuation of the alliance announced in January 2013, builds upon the positive ...
BioInvent International has secured a US patent for its antibody and concomitant target discovery technology F.I.R.S.T., a novel and unique discovery method, which allows for antibodies and disease targets to be identified simultaneously. ...
Evotec has announced a collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in California to identify new targets for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery and development. Under the terms of the agreement, Janssen Pharmaceuticals ...
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Cancer Research UK's commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT) has collaborated with Danish drug discovery firm Nuevolution for the discovery of anti-cancer drug molecules targeting several key proteins. The deal is aimed at ...
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Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver ...
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AstraZeneca has selected an undisclosed oncology target from Regulus Therapeutics as part of their strategic alliance in order to discover, develop and commercialize microRNA therapeutics. Both the companies have entered into a strategic ...
Atheris Laboratories and Debiopharm have announced the signature of a collaboration agreement regarding the Atheris 'Reverse-Discovery' lead optimization platform. Collaboration with Atheris is expected to accelerate Debiopharm's ongoing ...
An agreement amounting more than 500 million U.S. dollars between Greek- Swiss pharmaceutical and clinical research group Sellas Clinicals Holding and Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate Fosun Pharma for the development and marketing of two ...
Corning Incorporated GLW +25.86% today announced preliminary third-quarter 2013 results. Corning is providing this preview to facilitate communications with investors regarding its announcement today that it has entered into a series of ...
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US-based biopharmaceutical firm Anacor Pharmaceuticals has received a $13.5m research contract from the US Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to design and discover new classes of systemic antibiotics. Research ...
AstraZeneca has partnered with Taiwan’s National Research Program for Biopharmaceuticals (NRPB) in order to support academic research proposals using 'open innovation' as a catalyst for accelerating drug discovery. The project will ...
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the addition of clinical trials intelligence to the Thomson Reuters Cortellis suite, a comprehensive information solution for drug discovery and development. ...