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Tech Transfer Roundup: Universities And Biotechs Continue To Look For Ways To Combat COVID-19

 
• By Joseph Haas

AlloVir/Baylor, Soligenix/Hawaii and CEL-SCI/Georgia ink coronavirus collaborations, but deal-making continues in other areas as well, including Asklepios/UNC teaming on a gene therapy for Angelman syndrome and DeMelle licensing a targeted pancreatic cancer drug from Moffitt, among others.

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Below is Scrip’s regular roundup, including information from Strategic Transactions, of recent technology transfer agreements and collaborations between companies and academic or other research institutions.

T-cell immunotherapy firm AlloVir Inc. reported on 23 March that it is expanding its research collaboration with Baylor...

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