Plus agreements involving Hansoh/GHDDI, BriaCell/UMBC, Novartis/UC Berkeley, NeoPhore/Memorial Sloan Kettering, GEn1E/UM-Baltimore, ValoTx/University of Helsinki and Sosei/Cancer Research UK.

A review of tech transfer deals over 10 years shows that licensees often protect their value positions to limit royalties paid out to licensors. Meanwhile, licensors often protect their future rights with language recognizing that additional parties may be involved in producing a final product.

Fortress Biotech’s subsidiary will add the lentiviral gene therapy now in pair of Phase I/II trials to its pipeline. RXi partners with Karolinska to advance its self-delivering RNAi technology, while Avalon enlists Weill Cornell to enhance its CAR-T capabilities.

Tapping key external partners including the government, industry and academic partners in China is high on the agenda as Johnson & Johnson opens its first Asia Innovation Center.