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AbbVie, Calico Extend Their Collaboration On Aging

 
• By Joseph Haas

The pharma and the Google spinout focused on aging are adding $1bn in funding to their 2014 collaboration, which has yielded more than two dozen preclinical candidates so far.

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AbbVie Inc. and Google’s Calico Life Sciences LLC are extending and putting more money into a collaboration on aging-related disease first inked in 2014, which AbbVie notes has yielded more than two-dozen preclinical programs in oncology and neuroscience to date.

Under the new agreement unveiled on June 26, each company is committing another $500m apiece to the venture, already jointly...

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