February 2013 Volume 9, Issue 2

Volume 9, Issue 2 | February 2013

February 2013

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Tools & Technology

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Market share for Bio-Rad; focused direction for MorphoSys

Bio-Rad acquires MorphoSys’ AbD Serotec for approximately $70 million in a cash deal
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124 and counting

Venerable WHEATON Industries acquires chromatography vial supply company MicroLiter Analytical Supplies
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Shifting from manual to automatic

Roche, PSS unite to develop fully automated emulsion PCR instrument
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Alliance of a lifetime

Almac and TTP Labtech partner on fluorescence lifetime technology for screening applications

Research & Development

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End of the road for hESC opponents

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear case seeking to restrict federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research
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Sutro-Celgene partnership a strategic fit

Companies collaborate on ADCs in $500 million-plus deal
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A LEAP forward for stem cell research

Collaboration will give world-class scientific team access to cutting-edge private technologies
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Stem cell developers Give Cures

CET, John Paul II Medical Research Institute to develop stem cell biobank for academia, government, industry
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Neuroscience focus of AstraZeneca, Vanderbilt deal

Vanderbilt University has joined forces with AstraZeneca PLC in a research deal to identify potential treatments for psychosis and other psychiatric symptoms associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia

Global News

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Getting under our skin

Pfizer, Halozyme partner on subcutaneous biologics delivery in potential $500 million-plus deal
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Improving immune response

German pharma Phenex joins forces with Janssen Biotech to target autoimmune, chronic inflammatory disorders
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Trio tackles translational research

Three-way collaboration tackles Parkinson’s disease
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Getting AMP-ed up

Daiichi Sankyo, Amplimmune partner to develop immune modulation therapy
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Aligned in oncology

Chugai and Debiopharm announce an exclusive license agreement for anti-cancer agent FF284

Diagnostics

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Looking for a prenatal payoff

Illumina agrees to acquire Verinata Health for $350 million upfront plus $100 million in potential milestones
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Lilly, Dako make powerful companions

Collaboration on companion diagnostics will help speed oncology products to market
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CDx deal is thrice as nice

Already partnered on the development of a companion diagnostic test for lymphoma, Eisai and Epizyme bring Roche Molecular Diagnostics into the fold
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QIAGEN plus four

Company’s agreements with four companies boost its diagnostic pipeline for personalized healthcare applications
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Passing the transplantation diagnostics torch

Immucor acquires LIFECODES business from Hologic Inc.
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Life Tech, Boston Children’s Hospital launch clinical genomics company

Life Technologies Corp. and Boston Children’s Hospital announced in early January the launch of Claritas Genomics, a new company formed to develop next-generation, genetic and genomics-based diagnostic testing solutions

Contract Services

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Controlling the flow of information

PAREXEL acquires regulatory information management provider Liquent
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A deal with 'significant efficiencies'

CNS acquires business assets of long-time partner BELTAS
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Second time around

LGC acquires bioanalytical sciences business from Quotient Bioresearch
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Not your usual CRO arrangement

U.S.-based biopharma Onconova partners with Indian CRO GVK Biosciences on development of cancer drugs
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Questcor Pharmaceuticals acquires BioVectra

Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of BioVectra Inc., for an upfront payment of nearly $50 million

Omics & Systems Biology

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Shire acquires Lotus Tissue Repair, gains potential therapy for rare skin disease

Acquisition consists of an undisclosed upfront payment as well as certain additional payments if specified safety and development milestones are met
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My antisense is tingling

Strategic alliance between AstraZeneca and Isis aims to develop next-generation RNA therapeutics
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From platform to clinic

Partnership between Heptares Therapeutics and Cubist Pharmaceuticals targets GCPRs for unmet needs in acute care
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Autism spectrum under study

Population Dx, Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children discover gene variants for autism spectrum disorder
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MD Anderson, Trovagene to study transrenal BRAF mutations in primary, metastatic cancers

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Trovagene Inc., a developer of transrenal molecular diagnostics, have entered into a clinical collaboration with to detect transrenal BRAF mutations in the urine of patients with advanced or metastatic cancers

Feature

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SOT 2013 Annual Meeting and ToxExpo: One-stop toxicology shop (Part 1)

Annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology promises a wide range of toxicology and safety assessment science
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SOT 2013 Annual Meeting and ToxExpo: One-stop toxicology shop (Part 2)

Annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology promises a wide range of toxicology and safety assessment science

Commentary

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The times, they are a changin’ in the biopharma market

The biopharmaceutical development community has successfully developed a broad range of highly effective therapies for a wide variety of serious and debilitating diseases. However, developing biopharmaceuticals is inherently an extremely challenging and commercially risky undertaking, often working to tight timelines and typically resource- constrained.
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That’s not fair! Or is it?

Fair deserves a rest. A more precise set of words could include meritorious, disciplined and ethical.

Editor's Focus

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Sherley v. Sebelius: Where do we go from here?

“What we have going on right now with hESC research is the civil rights movement of the 21st century, a debate on whether science is going to enslave and manipulate the embryo,” says Samuel Casey, managing director and general counsel for the Law of Life Project, the law firm that represented the plaintiffs in Sherley v. Sebelius. “They are the new slaves. They are too small to vote. We are reopening the door on human subject experimentation, something that until now, only World War II closed the door on. I have spent the last 10 years trying to point out the truth, and this is where we today.”
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