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Deal Watch: BioLineRx, Ono, Vedantra Ink Separate Cancer Immunotherapy Pacts

 
• By Joseph Haas and Jung Won Shin

BioLineRx buys Agalimmune and its alpha Gal candidate for melanoma and possibly other oncology indications. Japan's Ono signs an R&D agreement with Switzerland's Numab, while Boston biotechs Vedantra and Neon will collaborate on potential cancer vaccines.

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Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Below is a roundup of some of the most noteworthy recent transactions that occurred from March 8-28. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Strategic Transactions.

The hectic pace of deal-making in the cancer immunotherapy space continues unabated, as BioLineRx Ltd. added to its pipeline and enhanced its capabilities with a $6m acquisition of privately held UK biotech Agalimmune Ltd. on March 23

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