Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Dealmaking column is a survey of recent health care transactions listed by relevant industry segment –In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals – and then categorized by type –Acquisition, Alliance, or Financing.

Agenus will have sufficient cash to last through 2013 as it focuses on furthering its immunotherapeutics, including HerpV for genital herpes and Prophage Series G vaccines for glioma.

The dealmaking column is a survey of recent transactions, including strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions, and financings, in the life sciences industries. Deals are listed by the following industry sectors: in vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and research/analytical instrumentation and reagents. All transactions are excerpted from Elsevier's Strategic Transactions, providing comprehensive transaction coverage from 1991 to the present.

Biosimilars took center stage during the last two weeks of 2011, as Amgen and Watson and then Baxter and Momenta followed up on the collaboration between Biogen Idec and Samsung BioLogics earlier in the month.