Tech Transfer Roundup: MD Anderson Tackles Cancer In Alliances With UroGen, Xencor, Obsidian

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The increasingly busy University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center inked three new alliances with biopharmaceutical companies in the past two months, including its second tie-up in less than a year with Xencor, Inc. All told, the Houston-based organization is researching bladder cancer with UroGen Pharma, Ltd., developing bispecific antibodies with Xencor, and working on novel, engineered tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) for solid tumors with Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc.

Focused on specialty cancer and urologic therapies, UroGen inked a three-year collaboration with MD Anderson on 13 January to advance...

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