Deals Of The Week: Eisai Shares Full Compound Library In Screening Partnership With JHU
Executive Summary
Academic drug-discovery collaborations with industry usually are limited by restraints companies place on how much of their compound libraries they’ll share in a collaboration. Plus the week’s top deals, including M&A transactions between Teva and NuPathe, and Par Pharmaceuticals and JHP.
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