Tech Transfer Roundup: Repeat Business As Boehringer, Vanderbilt Collaborate Further On KRAS

This month's roundup also records a second tie-up between Florida State and Spotlight Innovations, while Taiwan's Lin Biosciences licenses global rights to a CDC7 kinase inhibitor from Columbia and Memorial Sloan Kettering.

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Below is Scrip’s monthly roundup, compiled by Strategic Transactions, of recent technology transfer agreements between companies and academic or other research institutions.

Boehringer Ingelheim GMBH and Vanderbilt University signed a new multi-year collaboration March 2 for research and development of small-molecule compounds targeting protein SOS (Son of Sevenless)

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