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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…
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Pfizer & Chai Discovery have entered into a licensing agreement, allowing Pfizer to integrate Chai’s AI-driven drug discovery platform into its biologics research workflows
As per the deal, Pfizer will integrate Chai’s AI platform into its drug discovery engine, gaining early access to the Chai-3 model & a customized AI model built using Pfizer’s…
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Lundbeck and Cradle entered a partnership to leverage AI-powered protein engineering for the discovery and optimization of biotherapeutics, with an initial focus on 2 antibody programs targeting CNS diseases
Lundbeck will deploy Cradle’s generative AI platform in its first end-to-end AI-guided protein engineering workflow, using iterative feedback from experimental data to discover & optimize…
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CytomX has expanded its collaboration & licensing agreement with Regeneron to develop conditionally-activated bispecific cancer therapies using CytomX’s Probody platform & Regeneron’s Veloci-B BsAb development platform
As per the expanded deal, the companies will continue joint discovery efforts to identify & validate conditionally active BsAbs, with Regeneron assuming responsibility for all preclinical & clinical development, commercialization,…
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals & Inceptive Nucleics have entered into a strategic collaboration to accelerate the discovery of novel RNAi therapeutics
The collaboration is valued at up to $2B, with $30M upfront, incl. cash & an equity investment in Inceptive. Inceptive will also receive additional preclinical, regulatory, & commercial milestone payments
Collaboration combines Alnylam’s RNAi expertise…
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Ascidian has entered a global research & licensing agreement with Eli Lilly to discover & develop therapies for undisclosed monogenic kidney diseases, with an option to expand the collaboration to additional targets
As per the deal, Lilly will obtain exclusive target-specific rights to Ascidian’s RNA exon editing tech for undisclosed targets, with Ascidian leading…
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Travere has entered into an exclusive licensing & collaboration agreement with Everest Medicines for the development & commercialization of civorebrutinib (EVER001) worldwide (excl. China & certain countries in East & Southeast Asia)
As per the deal, Everest will receive $112.5M upfront & ~$1.03B in cash payments tied to development, regulatory & commercial milestones across…

