Alliances

Sage Therapeutics and Biogen’s zuranolone met its primary and key secondary endpoints in the Phase III SKYLARK study of women with postpartum depression (PPD).
Kineta struck a collaboration deal with Merck to pair its anti-VISTA monoclonal antibody with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a potential treatment for advanced solid tumors.
Gilead Sciences and MacroGenics entered into a licensing and collaboration pact worth up to $1.7 billion to develop a bispecific antibody to treat hematological cancers.
One year after BridgeBio won accelerated approval for liver cancer drug Truseltiq (infigratinib), the company is pulling a planned Phase III program due to its partner’s decision to discontinue the drug.
Terray Therapeutics and Calico Life Sciences struck a research and development collaboration focused on the development of small-molecule therapeutics for age-related diseases.
Vividion Therapeutics and Tavros Therapeutics entered into a five-year collaboration agreement, valued at up to $930 million, to discover and develop four novel oncology targets.
Merck and Moderna are moving forward with a personalized cancer vaccine as Merck exercised its option to develop and commercialize mRNA-4157/V940, the companies announced Wednesday.
Nimbus Therapeutics scored a $496 million payday through a collaboration and licensing deal with pharma giant Eli Lilly for potential therapeutics for metabolic diseases.
Ginkgo Bioworks partnered with Merck on engineered enzymes for use as biocatalysts for Merck’s active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing programs.
Computational technology company Schrödinger announced Thursday it has forged a $425 million drug design collaboration with Eli Lilly.
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