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C4 And Google's Calico Enter Mysterious Alliance On 'Diseases Of Aging'

 
• By Joseph Haas

While details are scant, the five-year collaboration will pair C4's targeted protein degradation approach with Calico's focus on diseases of aging. Privately held C4 otherwise is aiming to bring its first Degronomid candidate into the clinic in 2018.

Handshake of businessmen

Two of the more mystery-shrouded new players in the biopharmaceutical sector – C4 Therapeutics Inc. and Calico Life Sciences LLC – are teaming up to join the former's targeted protein degradation approach with the latter's focus on treating "diseases of aging." Presumably, big bucks are part of the five-year collaboration between the two privately held firms, but no one is saying.

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