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Antares Therapeutics has entered into a strategic collaboration with Novartis to discover, develop & commercialize small molecule therapies against undruggable oncology targets
Antares will lead research & apply its discovery engine to a select number of historically undruggable targets until option exercise, while continuing to advance its wholly owned & partnered precision medicine pipeline…
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BI has entered into a strategic research collaboration with Combotope to leverage its SMART-Phage platform to produce highly tumor-selective antibodies for next-generation cancer therapies
Combotope will discover tumor-selective, high-affinity antibodies against multiple BI oncology targets, while BI will hold global development & commercialization rights, and lead further R&D, manufacturing, & commercialization activities
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Abbisko Therapeutics has entered into a strategic research collaboration & license agreement with Eli Lilly to discover & develop novel therapeutics across multiple targets
Abbisko will leverage its early-stage drug discovery platform, R&D ecosystem, & development expertise to conduct discovery & early-stage development of novel therapeutics against disease targets selected by Lilly
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Boltz has partnered with Takeda to deploy its biomolecular AI platform across Takeda’s research organization, providing discovery teams access to proprietary foundation models, incl. BoltzMol-1 & BoltzProt-1, to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery
The platform is designed to support in-silico molecular design, enabling structure prediction, affinity estimation, and generative design to enhance AI-driven drug discovery…
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LabGenius has entered into a multi-year research collaboration, option & licensing agreement with LG Chem to identify next-generation multispecific antibodies for difficult-to-treat cancers, leveraging LabGenius’ AI/ML-driven antibody discovery platform, EVA
As per the licensing deal, LabGenius will lead preclinical research, incl. in vitro efficacy studies, after which LG Chem will conduct further preclinical development, incl.…
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Jazz has entered into a preclinical research collaboration, option & license agreement with AbCellera to discover & develop next-generation T-cell engaging (TCE) multispecific antibodies for GI cancer & other solid tumors, leveraging AbCellera’s antibody discovery engine
AbCellera will lead discovery & early-stage research for 2 initial programs, with a third to start within…
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Protillion has entered into a multi-target discovery collaboration & license agreement with Merck, integrating Protillion’s Prot-MaP technology with Merck’s global expertise in the discovery of novel therapeutic candidates
As per the deal, Protillion will receive an undisclosed upfront payment & ~$510M in research, development, & commercial milestone payments for the successful development of multiple…
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XtalPi has entered into a strategic partnership with a biopharmaceutical company to develop an oral small molecule against G protein-coupled receptor
XtalPi will leverage its structure-based drug design platform, combining quantum physics, generative AI, large-scale automated chemical synthesis orchestrated by a multi-agent system to accelerate Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) cycles
As per the deal, XtalPi will receive…
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Orionis Biosciences has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Novartis to discover & design molecular glue drugs for challenging therapeutic targets across multiple disease areas
As per the deal, the companies will leverage Orionis’s Allo-Glue platform & AI-powered discovery engine to accelerate target & ligase profiling, as well as molecular glue optimization, enabling the…
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Nurix has entered a global collaboration with Roche to develop & commercialize bexobrutideg (PO), a BTK targeted protein degrader, which is under P-II/III trial for chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Nurix will receive $700M upfront & ~$2.3B in milestones. Development costs will be shared (40% Nurix & 60% Roche), with both co-commercializing the drug & equally…

