Pfizer And Flagship Alliance Seeks Faster R&D Paradigm For Novel Meds

The two partners are committing $100m to a 10-program effort combining Pfizer’s R&D capabilities with technologies and modalities housed within Flagship Pioneering and its portfolio companies.

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Flagship will partner with Pfizer to develop 10 novel medicines • Source: Shutterstock

Flagship Pioneering and Pfizer Inc. unveiled a $100m, 10-program collaboration commitment on 18 July that will harness the scope and scale that Pfizer can bring to developing new drugs for indications with broad patient populations with the novel assets in the venture firm’s Pioneering Medicines unit, Flagship executive partner Paul Biondi said.

The former Bristol Myers Squibb Company exec told Scrip that he thinks combining the two organizations’ strengths – including...

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