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Hey, Novartis. GTO Could Use $600 Million, Too

Dec 03, 2007

This piece gets in on big-money merit. Check out the Wall Street Journal for a quick story about Novartis and MorphoSys, a German biotech, expanding their collaboration -- to the tune of a 10-year, $600 million partnership. The alliance is geared toward "the discovery and development of antibody-based biological drugs," according to the article.

 

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