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Revolutionizing and personalizing global health 
By E. Kevin Hrusovsky, PerkinElmer Inc.
As the complexity and volume of data continue to rise, bioinformatics is emerging as one of the cornerstones of personalized medicine, from enabling discovery and development of novel treatments and diagnostics to facilitating collection, analysis and interpretation of data that ultimately helps an individual patient.  

SPECIAL REPORT PART 1: ‘Good enough’ is no longer good enough
 
By Randall Willis, ddn Features Editor
Aiming beyond the standard of care in oncology  

SPECIAL REPORT PART 2: An aside on side effects 
By Randall Willis, ddn Features Editor
Are we really making things better for cancer patients?  

High-profile oncology partnership

By Jim Cirigliano, ddn Contributing Editor
Araxes Pharma and Janssen Biotech ink oncology drug development deal  

Natural neighbors
 
By Kelsey Kaustinen, ddn Features Editor
OSU, Biosortia link up to identify natural products for potential cancer treatments  

 

Hamilton Robotics
 
 
GDBP gains license to monoclonal antibody for China
April 2012
SHARING OPTIONS:

GANSU, China—Privately held Apexigen and Gansu Duyiwei Biological Pharmaceutical (GDBP) have announced a collaboration that will provide GDBP with an exclusive license to develop and commercialize APX004 in China. APX004 is a humanized monoclonal antibody directed against VEGFR2 for the treatment of certain cancers and angiogenic diseases. Under the agreement, GDBP will be solely responsible for researching, developing and commercializing APX004 in China, while Apexigen will collaborate with GDBP to advance the development program and will retain all rights to the compound outside of China. Apexigen will receive an upfront payment, regulatory milestone payments and a royalty, though no specific financial details were disclosed. Zhiping Duan, CEO of GDBP, said the deal will become a developmental milestone for the company.

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