Collaboration with Washington University to co-develop therapies targeting apoliprotein A makes up part of Denali's big August push in Alzheimer's. Kleo gets global rights to two Yale antibody programs and raises Series A cash.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Tech Transfer Deals column provides a monthly update on technology transfer deals, reporting licensing agreements between companies and universities or other research institutions within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors. This month’s column covers deals announced October through November 2013.

Biopharma and medical device start-ups brought in a total of $216 million in Q1 2011. Absent were any financings involving in vitro diagnostics companies. Only four acquisitions involving start-ups were completed - one in biopharma and three in the device industry. Cancer was the most popular therapeutic category among biopharma start-up alliance this quarter.

Our monthly update on technology transfer deals--licensing agreements between companies and universities or other research institutions--in the fields of life sciences, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and research/analytical instrumentation and reagents.