Deal Watch: Vir Partnering With Alnylam, WuXi On Coronavirus Treatments

US biotech expands 2017 collaboration with Alnylam and inks collaboration with WuXi. Plus deals involving AbbVie, Allergan, Amazon, Thermo Fisher, Qiagen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Trutino, Taiho, Arcus, Eisai, Fuji Yakuhin, Hikma, Glenmark, Hanmi, GC, Bayer, GW.

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

Vir Biotechnology Inc. announced that it was expanding an existing infectious disease collaboration with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. on 4 March to seek an RNA-interference therapeutic for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

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