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Genexine Counting On Hyleukin-7’s Potential As Versatile I-O Booster

Sees Future In Cell-Related Therapies

 
• By Jung Won Shin

Genexine’s recent M&A activity and foreign partnerships underscore its strategy on pipeline innovative therapeutics and biobetters as well as preparations to secure future growth engines, the Korean firm's vice-president tells Scrip in an interview.

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Korea's Genexine Looks For Wide Use of Hyleukin-7 • Source: Shutterstock

Genexine Inc. may be one of the South Korean bioventures most actively engaged in seeking foreign partnerships and acquisitions in the past few years.

Most recently, its US joint venture CoImmune Inc. decided to merge with Italy’s Formula Biopharmaceuticals Inc. CoImmune was established after Genexine and another South Korean firm, SCM Lifescience, took over US-based immunotherapy firm Argos Therapeutics Inc. last year

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