Dai­ichi Sankyo adds $484M pact to its on­go­ing Zymeworks col­lab­o­ra­tion; Sur­face spins out of Im­prim­is with $20M raise

→ Af­ter work­ing with Zymeworks as a part­ner over the past two years, Dai­ichi Sankyo has come back for more, pay­ing $18 mil­lion up­front and promis­ing $466.7 mil­lion more for li­cens­es to de­vel­op two more as­sets. Van­cou­ver-based Zymeworks has scored a num­ber of part­ner­ship deals with big play­ers — think Cel­gene and J&J — with Azy­met­ric, its plat­form tech which trans­forms mono­spe­cif­ic an­ti­bod­ies in­to bis­pe­cif­ic an­ti­bod­ies.

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