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• By Deanna Kamienski, Beth Allan, Maureen Riordan, Steven Muntner, and Joseph Haas

Aduro Biotech discusses what it looks for in an academic collaboration. Plus, Sarepta adds gene therapies to its Duchenne pipeline from Nationwide Children's Hospital and Columbia University out-licenses IP to a pair of biotechs.

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CEO Stephen Isaacs describes Aduro Biotech Inc.'s recently signed immuno-oncology collaboration with Stanford University as an effort to join wheels to a car, "so hopefully we can go on a very nice journey together."

The agreement, announced Jan. 17, will combine Aduro's personalized live, attenuated double-deleted Listeria (LADD) immunotherapy platform with an algorithm developed...

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