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ARTICLE | Strategy

Branching out

How Regeneron is using deals to enter new disease areas outside its pipeline

December 2, 2017 12:08 AM UTC

Decibel Therapeutics Inc. and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. have embarked on a deal that gives the smaller company a suite of technologies it could not build itself, while giving the big cap a stake in a new therapeutic area it wouldn’t have entered on its own.

The collaboration at the deal’s heart is unusual, and is part of the big cap’s strategy to deploy its technologies into new therapeutic areas without losing focus or smothering its smaller partners...