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Drug Development

Boehringer acquires Northern Biologics, collaborates with CDR-Life

by Michael McCoy
May 15, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 19

 

The German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim has acquired Northern Biologics, a Canadian developer of antibodies targeting the tumor microenvironment, for an undisclosed sum. One of Northern’s two experimental antibodies inhibits a key protein in the microenvironment, causing a tumor to become susceptible to immune system attack. Separately, Boehringer will collaborate with the Swiss firm CDR-Life on developing antibody fragment therapies that treat geographic atrophy, a retinal disease.

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