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Deal Watch: Ikena Cuts Staff After BMS Exits IO Partnership

 
• By Joseph Haas and Lisa Takagi

Plus deals involving Lipocine/Verity, Vivtex/AI Proteins, Windtree/Lee’s Pharmaceutical, Biogen/Ji Xing, Sermonix/Henlius and news from the world of technology transfer.

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

Ikena Oncology said on 18 January that it is undertaking a 35% staff reduction, in tandem with a 17...

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