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Bayer, Evotec Alliances Create 'Virtual' Specialized Businesses With Finite Goals

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

On the sidelines of the BIO-Europe partnering conference, held in Cologne, Germany, Dr Joerg Moeller, head of development for Bayer's pharmaceuticals division, and Evotec CEO Dr Werner Lanthaler tell Scrip why their partnerships work and what challenges they have overcome to create short-term syndicated businesses with specific therapeutic focuses.

Bayer AG and Evotec AG have recently struck a second collaboration, this time in kidney disease, on the back of their successful discovery and development partnership looking at new drug candidates for women's health indications. Bayer's head of development for pharmaceuticals, Dr Joerg Moeller, and Evotec chief, Dr Werner Lanthaler, told Scrip more about their "modern" setup and how fixed project endings help to eradicate development bottlenecks.

In Oct. 2012 Bayer and Evotec entered into a five-year multi-target strategic alliance to identify three small molecule clinical candidates for the treatment of endometriosis. Four years since signing the...

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