James Sabry adds an­oth­er weapon to Roche-Genen­tech ar­se­nal; Dai­ichi Sankyo adds ADC #6

James Sabry and Aviv Regev at Roche and Genen­tech have been rack­ing up ear­ly stage part­ner­ships, ty­ing up with ear­ly stage biotechs de­vel­op­ing every­thing from new AI en­gines to new ways of de­liv­er­ing gene ther­a­py. Now, they’ve signed on with an old­er play­er, join­ing a small mol­e­cule biotech that’s al­ready col­lab­o­rat­ed with many of the biggest names in drug de­vel­op­ment.

Genen­tech and X-Chem, a biotech that spe­cial­izes in DNA-en­cod­ed li­braries, have signed an agree­ment that will al­low the big biotech to both use their tech­nol­o­gy to find new mol­e­cules and give them an ex­clu­sive li­cense on a pre-ex­ist­ing pro­gram. De­tails for that pro­gram were undis­closed, as were up­front pay­ment and mile­stones.

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