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Assessing a Phase 3b follow-up trial for a pharma licensing opportunity

Challenge: Our client, a PE-backed specialty pharma company growing rapidly through M&A, was assessing a number of late-stage development projects to license/acquire. The asset in question was a...
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CMC and regulatory due diligence for a medical imaging agent

Challenge One of the leading medical imaging companies worldwide approached Alacrita to assess an opportunity to acquire the manufacturing and distribution rights to an important imaging agent used...
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Technical and market risk assessment for a private equity firm

Challenge Our client, a UK-based private equity company, was evaluating an investment in a full service global medical communications agency with a portfolio of blue-chip biopharma clients, and as...
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Scouting for autoimmune / auto-inflammatory assets

Challenge: A pharma company was interested in identifying novel protein-based autoimmune / auto-inflammatory assets early in development from pre-GLP studies to 18 months from an IND. The company had...
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Search for licensable pharma assets of financially distressed companies

Challenge: A phase 2 clinical-stage pharma company intent on supplementing their internal pipeline with external innovation asked Alacrita to identify immune-oncology or vaccine assets owned by...
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Scouting for autoimmune / immunology assets

Challenge: A new venture fund reached out to Alacrita for support with identifying novel pharma assets available for in-licensing, for the purpose of founding a new start-up and enabling the further...
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Due diligence, valuation, and licensing of an infectious disease asset

Challenge: A former venture fund client identified a novel Phase 1-ready asset for treating a rare CNS infectious disease and was interested in licensing the asset and founding a new company to...
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Sales forecast for nanoparticle-drug-conjugate in small cell lung cancer

Challenge: A UK-based pharma company specializing in oncology drug development sought to understand the potential value of a nanoparticle drug product in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Alacrita was...
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Inflammatory bowel disease primary market research & opportunity mapping

Challenge: A private venture-backed US biotech company was developing a biologic through late-stage drug discovery and wished to quantify the commercial opportunity for the product in treating anemia...
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Preclinical development support for a gene therapy

Challenge: A biotech company developing novel gene therapy approaches for in vivo cell trans-differentiation required an AAV gene therapy expert to serve on a scientific advisory board (SAB) tasked...
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Scouting for GI disease assets for in-licensing

Challenge: A disease area unit within a global biopharmaceutical company was charged with a mandate to seek out novel candidate assets in development to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and...
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IP portfolio triage of a live biotherapeutic product for a US TTO

Project Challenge: A US technology transfer office required support in evaluating its life science research programs to help direct internal funding towards its most commercially viable projects....
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