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Biopharma dealmaking in 2025 continued to face significant headwinds, with collaborations frequently collapsing due to strategic reprioritization, fierce competitive pressures, unfavorable clinical readouts, and failure to meet key closing conditions highlighting the inherent uncertainty and capital risk embedded in innovation-driven partnerships
The year underscored a clear dominance of R&D-focused collaborations and licensing agreements,…
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Adaptive has entered into 2 non-exclusive agreements with Pfizer, combining its T-cell receptor (TCR) discovery & immune receptor antigen-mapping platform to support Pfizer’s research across autoimmune & other disease areas
As per the target discovery deal, Adaptive will identify disease-specific TCR targets in rheumatoid arthritis from Pfizer clinical samples, while Pfizer will lead development…
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The February edition highlights OrbiMed Advisors, a New York-based investment firm specializing in public and private investments within the healthcare and biotech sectors
In 2024, OrbiMed expanded its portfolio by adding 49 companies, investing approximately $6.08B across five funding rounds, including private and debt financing
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OrbiMed primarily…
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An American investment firm, OrbiMed Advisor is a prominent name when it comes to healthcare investments. The company boasts a robust portfolio of more than 180 companies, including AbCellera, Acelyrin, Actus Medical, and Adaptive Biotechnologies, among others
In 2023, OrbiMed invested in 38 funding rounds; 11, 6, 9 & 12 every quarter across 2023…
The recent emergence of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred global healthcare and life sciences companies- as well as government agencies- to partner at an unprecedented speed to develop vaccines- treatments- and tests
This article covers last four months of deal data provided by Chris Dokomajilar of DealForma.
This first part is…

