Evotec and Pfizer collaborate to advance drug discovery in France

Multi-year collaboration will initially focus on early discovery research for metabolic and infectious diseases

11-Jul-2024 - Evotec SE announced it has entered into a multi-year master research collaboration and option and license agreement with Pfizer. Under the agreement, Evotec and Pfizer will initially focus on early discovery research for metabolic and infectious diseases. The research will be carried out at ...

Start-up ViGeneron announces research collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo

Evaluate vgAAV for novel ophthalmic gene therapy

19-Jan-2021 - ViGeneron GmbH, a gene therapy company, announced a research collaboration to utilize its novel engineered adeno-associated virus (vgAAV) vectors with Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, for delivering a novel therapeutic protein to address an undisclosed target in a highly prevalent ophthalmic ...

Opening the way for global innovation in biotechnology

New agreement supports sharing, innovation and openness

16-Oct-2018 - A new easy-to-use legal tool that enables open exchange of biological materials is launched. The OpenMTA is a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) designed to support openness, sharing and innovation in global biotechnology. Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) provide the legal frameworks within ...

Jacobs University and Fraunhofer IME signed collaboration agreement

12-Jun-2018 - Jacobs University Bremen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, announce their intention to set up a new strategic collaboration to establish joint research projects in the area of antibiotic drug discovery and promote the exchange of students, researchers and ...

BASF and Evogene announce multiyear collaboration for the development of novel insecticides

30-May-2018 - BASF and Evogene Ltd. announced a new collaboration focusing on the development of novel insecticides based on new binding areas (Site-of-Action or ‘SoA’) on key insecticidal target proteins. The parties also announced that the collaboration achieved its first project milestone, with the joint ...

Stora Enso enters into strategic partnership with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

30-May-2018 - Stora Enso has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Through the agreement Stora Enso and SLU intend to establish a long-term collaboration in research and development, education, competence building, and innovation within the fields ...

Agilent and University of Duisburg-Essen Announce Collaboration Agreement

New Teaching and Research Center for Separation

28-May-2018 - Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of Duisburg-Essen has formed a collaboration agreement that brings together Agilent's leading analytical technologies with the University's outstanding researchers. As part of the collaboration, Agilent will support the university with a broad range of ...

Merck and Washington University working on diagnostics and treatment of malnutrition

Genome editing to be used in intestinal bacteria research

22-May-2018 - Merck announced a collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, that could lead to the optimizing of nutritional supplements to restore a healthy gut microbial community (microbiome). The two-year collaboration will employ Merck’s CRISPR genome-editing technology in ...

Topas Therapeutics and Boehringer Ingelheim sign multi-year collaboration

Initial focus on next generation vector-based therapeutics

26-Apr-2018 - Topas Therapeutics GmbH (Topas), a Hamburg, Germany-based private platform company leveraging the natural tolerance induction capabilities of the liver, today announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim to collaborate in the field of antigen-specific tolerance ...

Is it time to abandon the Nobel Prize?

Provocative comment emphasis collaboration over few-person discoveries

19-Apr-2018 - In a commentary piece authors Clare Fiala and Eleftherios P. Diamandis spawned a debate now further nourished by recent disclosures. Fiala and Diamandis argue that it is time to abandon the Nobel Prize in favor of alternative recognitions which encompass the collaborative nature of modern ...