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GlaxoSmithKline to head tuberculosis drug discovery initiative
As rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis rise across the globe, GlaxoSmithKline is partnering with Switzerland's BioVersys and France's University of Lille to develop a preclinical candidate against the airborne disease.
Kymab, Gates Foundation to team up for malaria, HIV antigen discovery
Thanks to a Series B round from Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.K. biotech Kymab has some new vaccine research plans.
Gates, Wellcome bet $40M on Kymab's antibody tech
Cambridge, U.K.'s Kymab touts its drug development platform as an ideal way to spotlight new antibodies, and some bright minds would seem to agree, as the Wellcome Trust and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have teamed up on a $40 million round for the biotech.
GSK teams up to apply Big Data to target validation
The combination of genomics and bioinformatics expertise now needed for target validation has led drugmakers to look outside their walls for skills, with Pfizer teaming with the Broad Institute on such a project. Now GlaxoSmithKline has set up its own initiative and called for its Big Pharma peers to get involved.
GlaxoSmithKline joins a biotech brain trust to make R&D; more efficient
Translating all the information from the genomics revolution into verifiable drug targets has proven to be no easy task. Now, in an effort to bend the curve toward R&D; success, GlaxoSmithKline is teaming up with external experts, putting up money and brainpower to launch a collaborative research effort.
Wellcome bets $4M on CRO Selcia's university team-up
The U.K.'s Wellcome Trust is putting up about $4.1 million to fund a collaboration between CRO Selcia and Edinburgh University, under which the two will develop new treatments for sleeping sickness.
Wellcome ponies up $20M to kick-start an Oxford spinoff
With the help of Syncona, the Wellcome Trust's venture arm, Oxford University spinout NightstaRx has $20 million and a plan to develop gene therapies for degenarative eye conditions.
Sanger Institute taps DDN to help with Big Data boom
The falling cost of sequencing has created a new problem for research institutions--where to put all the data. At the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 30 DNA sequencers generate a terabyte a day, meaning its 22 petabytes of storage is filling up. The time for a rethink on how it stores data has arrived.
Johnson & Johnson forges partnership to fight dengue fever
Johnson & Johnson's Janssen is partnering with the University of Leuven in Belgium and the U.K.'s Wellcome Trust in an effort to combat the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease, dengue fever.
Johnson & Johnson inks R&D; pact to fight growing threat of dengue infections
Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) aims to advance antiviral compounds against the rising threat of dengue infection by teaming with Belgian academics whose backing from the Wellcome Trust has aided the discovery of potential drugs against all four strains of the mosquito-borne illness.
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