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Tech Transfer Roundup: Boehringer Fits Deal Structure To Partner's Expertise

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

Boehringer Ingelheim's Paola Casarosa explains that when her company partners with academia, it looks for the best way to mine that level of expertise rather than trying to fit the collaboration to a preferred deal model. Plus, our roundup includes three cancer-related deals and one for dry eye disease.

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Boehringer Ingelheim GMBH considers research pacts with academia a key part of its strategy, and while it leans more toward research collaborations than license- or option-based deals, the company tries to be agnostic about which type of deal structure will fit a specific agreement with academic researchers.

Paola Casarosa, BI's corporate VP for business development and licensing/prescription medicines, told Scrip her team uses a case-by-case approach to...

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