Strategic Alliances
Within the company’s global strategy, EMD Serono’s U.S. business development efforts are important to help drive future growth and opportunity. Partnering with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and leading academic institutions, is a central feature of the company's strategy to be a world leader in the biopharmaceutical industry. As a global organization, we offer to our partners a unique combination of characteristics, including:
- A track record of success in developing and commercializing innovative pharmaceuticals worldwide;
- Clear strategic objectives;
- An innovation-driven, entrepreneurial culture;
- Alliance management
- Organizational transparency
- Substantial financial resources;
- Outstanding capabilities in the manufacture of recombinant protein products.
What we seek through collaborations is the value that is created by combining complementary expertise and resources with our partners in the context of a well-defined project. Successful collaborations for the organization have included co-promotion, in-licensing, pre-clinical and co-development. Current global and US partners include:
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, to advance basic and clinical research in multiple sclerosis (MS), with the goal of generating new and innovative discoveries that advance treatment for people living with this condition.
- The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, to provide M. D. Anderson with early insight into potential cancer treatments and to accelerate EMD Serono’s preclinical and early clinical research to ultimately bring new drugs to patients faster.
- Fast Forward, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to support innovative early-stage projects directed towards the development of therapies to prevent treat, or reverse nervous system damage in multiple sclerosis (MS).
- Pfizer Inc for the co-marketing of Rebif for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in the US
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Cancer
- Autoimmune diseases
- Endocrine disorders
- Fertility disorders
For more information about opportunities for collaboration at EMD Serono, please contact Bharat Tewarie, Vice President, Head of Business Development, US.
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