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Peking University, Boehringer begin research collaboration

May 16, 2017 9:24 PM UTC

Peking University and Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (Ingelheim, Germany) entered into a broad partnership under which they plan to identify targets and develop therapies in cancer, cancer immunology and immune modulation, respiratory, cardiometabolic and CNS diseases. The partners will also seek to develop regenerative medicines and gene therapies.

The collaboration is Boehringer's second recent research partnership with a Chinese university. In November 2016, Boehringer collaborated with the China Southeast University Institute of Life Sciences (Nanjing, China) to develop regenerative therapies to treat hearing loss (see BioCentury Extra, Nov. 29, 2016)...