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THIRD QUARTER STATISTICS<strong>The</strong> <strong>Burrill</strong> <strong>Report</strong>Q3 2012 Select Pharma/Biotech Alliances With Academia And NonprofitsCOMPANY ACADEMIA/ NONPROFIT PRINCIPAL FOCUS TERMSADC <strong>The</strong>rapeutics(Switzerland)Cancer Research Technology(United Kingdom)Antibody drugconjugatesFluxion Biosciences Stanford University CancerpharmacogeneticsAstraZenecaCornell University; FeinsteinInstitute for Medical Research;University of British Columbia;Washington UniversityAlzheimer’s diseaseBoehringer Ingelheim Harvard University TranslationalresearchAbbott Laboratories;AstraZeneca; Bayer; EliLilly; GlaxoSmithKline;Merck; SanofiSanofi (France)Life TechnologiesBGI (China)Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation; InfectiousDisease Research Institute;National Institute of Allergyand Infectious Diseases; TexasA&M University; Weill CornellMedical CollegeBrigham and Women’sHospital (Harvard)Structural GenomicsConsortiumUniversity of Edinburgh(United Kingdom)TB researchaccelerationType 1 diabetesresearchEpigenetic antibodymaster listGenomicsCipla (India) Drugs for Neglected Diseases HIV anti-retroviraltherapyNovartis (Switzerland) University of Pennsylvania PersonalizedimmunotherapyCollaboration to develop cancer treatments called antibody drugconjugates using cancer research technology antibodies andpeptides, and ADC <strong>The</strong>rapeutic’s ‘warhead’ and linker chemistries.Partnership with Stanford’s School of Medicine to develop tests tosubtype different forms of disease and to develop more effective,individualized treatments for breast and lung cancer patients.Drug discovery partnership focused on apolipoprotein E (APOE)epsilon 4 in Alzheimer’s disease. <strong>The</strong> pharma’s neuroscienceinnovative medicines unit (iMED) will provide programmanagement and scientific expertise.Collaboration to identify signaling pathways and drug targetsfor cancer, cardiometabolic, fibrotic, and infectious diseases. Ajoint research committee will award funds to selected proposals.<strong>The</strong> collaboration is already supporting eight projects in cancerstem cell survival, replication of detrimental viruses, and fibroticprocesses.<strong>The</strong> seven pharmas have opened up sections of their compoundlibraries and agreed to share data with each other and the researchinstitutions under the Gates Foundation’s TB Drug Acceleratorprogram to discover treatments for tuberculosis.Research collaboration focused on immunology of type 1 diabeteswit both organizations sharing knowledge and applying theirrespective expertise in basic and applied research regardingdiabetes and drug target and candidate development. Researchersfrom both organizations will undertake proof-of-concept, safetyand functional studies for a novel immunomodulatory approachto treat type 1 diabetes. Sanofi has an option to exclusively licenseintellectual property emerging from this collaboration.Partnership to generate a first-ever master set of quality epigeneticrecombinant antibodies for use in disease-related research.Partners also include scientists at the Universities of Chicago andToronto.Partnership aimed at enhancing the university’s genomics andbioinformatics activities in biomedical research and livestockstudies.Partnership to develop by 2015 a low-cost, four-drug antiretroviralcombination therapy to treat HIV infection in children less thanthree years old.University of Pennsylvania grants Novartis an exclusive worldwidelicense to the technologies used in an ongoing trial of patientswith chronic lymphocytic leukemia as well as future cellularimmunotherapies using chimeric antigen receptor technologies.Penn and Novartis will build a first-of-its-kind Center for AdvancedCellular <strong>The</strong>rapies on the Penn campus in Philadelphia. Novartiswill invest in the establishment of the CACT and future research ofthe technology. Additional milestone and royalty payments to Pennare also part of the agreement.GNS Healthcare CHDI Foundation Neurology Data analytics company GNS Healthcare and CHDI will createa computer model of Huntington’s disease using GNS’ REFSmodeling technology with CHDI providing genomic, expression,and cell-signaling data. GNS will transfer the model to CHDI andaffiliated researchers after it is completed.(continued) ❱❱November 2012 21

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