Boehringer Buys Abexxa To Boost Cancer Pipeline

Provided Initial Funding For Start-Up In 2016

The latest in a series of deals that Boehringer Ingelheim has inked in the oncology space will see the German family-run firm acquire US biotech Abexxa.

Boehringer Ingelheim headquarters in Ingelheim, Germany
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More than five years after providing seed funding for Abexxa Biologics Inc, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbHhas decided to acquire the US-based oncology start-up which is developing what the German group hopes will be "the next generation of precision medicines designed to revolutionize cancer treatments."

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