Deal Watch: Celgene Joins Line Of Partners Tapping Exscientia’s AI-Driven Discovery Engine

While the proposed Bristol/Celgene merger nears an April vote, Celgene continues a recent spate of deal-making, paying $25m up front to Exscientia to discover small molecule candidates for cancer and autoimmune disease.

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Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Strategic Transactions.

Celgene Corp. and Exscientia Ltd., a UK biotech focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-based drug discovery, unveiled a three-year...

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