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Deal Watch: BMS Returning IL-12 Candidate To Frequent Partner Dragonfly

 
• By Joseph Haas, Jung Won Shin, and Dexter Jie Yan

The firms’ partnership goes back to pre-merger Celgene, and BMS still has Dragonfly candidates in its pipeline. Ji Xing gets hypertension candidate from Phase Bio.

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While the two biopharmas remain partnered on multiple Tri-Specific Natural Killer cell Engager Therapies (TriNKET) candidates from collaborations dating back...

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