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Industry business-development executives rang in the New Year with a half-dozen deals, including Forma’s second big partnership in six months and a joint licensing agreement between Alnylam and Arrowhead.

Cambridge, Mass.-based computational drug discovery platform developer Forma Therapeutics Holdings LLC struck its second big partnership in just over six months on Jan. 5. Boehringer Ingelheim GMBH agreed to pay $65 million upfront, plus another $750 million in potential pre-commercial milestone payments, to discover oncology treatments that affect protein-protein interactions Also see "Boehringer, Forma Strike Discovery Deal In Oncology" - Pink Sheet, 6 January, 2012.. The companies will select an unspecified number of targets jointly; a few have been determined already, but the remainder will be selected over the course of the four-year deal.

In late June, Genentech Inc. and Forma agreed to discover cancer metabolism drugs in a deal of undisclosed size....

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