Collaboration - October 23, 2018
AstraZeneca expands collaboration with Innate Pharma
AstraZeneca, and its global biologics research and development arm MedImmune, have announced a new multi-term agreement with Innate Pharma, building on an existing collaboration, aimed at accelerating each company’s oncology portfolio and bringing new medicines to patients more quickly. The extended collaboration will enrich AstraZeneca’s immuno-oncology (IO) portfolio with pre-clinical and clinical potential new medicines, […]
Collaboration - October 1, 2018
Vaccibody enters new partnership
The Norwegian company is entering into a clinical collaboration with the American biopharmaceutical company Nektar Therapeutics. The aim of the collaboration is to explore positive effects from the combination of Vaccibody’s personalized cancer vaccine VB10.NEO and Nektar Therapeutics cancer drug NKTR-214. Pre clinical results of the combination are positive and the collaboration will mark the start of a clinical trial […]
Collaboration - September 26, 2018
Novo Nordisk and Danish Government partner with UN-anchored initiative
The Danish Government and Novo Nordisk are announcing grants of 3 and 5 million US dollars respectively to the newly established Defeat-NCD Partnership during a launch event at the UN General Assembly. These are the first grants made to the partnership that aims to initially raise 100 million dollars to fund the mobilisation of knowledge, […]
Collaboration - September 25, 2018
Cobra Biologics, GE Healthcare & Centre for Process Innovation collaborate to advance gene therapy
The three-way partnership aims to increase the robustness and reduce costs for the manufacturing of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors, a delivery vehicle used for emerging gene therapy treatments. The gene therapy area has been developing rapidly and while only a small number of treatments are already approved for use, more than 200 clinical trials are […]
Collaboration - September 19, 2018
Tampere – A perfect location for R&D and Innovation
Located between two lakes, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi, Finland’s Manchester possesses a vibrant ecosystem, supporting life science collaborations across disciplines. In a beautiful Finnish landscape consisting of lakes and nature reserves, and with characteristic red brick buildings revealing the industrial history, lies Finland’s second largest city region with close to half a million inhabitants. The city […]
Collaboration - September 13, 2018
Highlights from NLSDays 2018
To round off this year’s Nordic Life Science Days, we asked Jonas Ekstrand, Director General at SwedenBIO, the founder of the event, a few questions. What’s your impressions of this year’s event? “Mainly positive. I have received both positive and constructive feedback from participants, they have for example enjoyed meeting companies they otherwise would not have […]
