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Pacts In Medtech, Jan/Feb 2018

 
• By Beth Allan, Maureen Riordan, and Deanna Kamienski

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life-sciences deals, the bimonthly Pacts In Medtech highlights notable technology alliances, R&D partnerships and commercial collaborations. In this edition, we look at industry pacts that were sealed in the first two months of 2018.

Pacts In Medtech

January and February saw a few crossover partnerships, where the line between drugs and devices become blurry and innovative therapies emerge from increasingly multidisciplinary alliances.

Neuromodulation is one area where pharma companies are finding harder to ignore, not least GlaxoSmithKline PLC, which was one...

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