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Dragonfly News

Dragonfly's novel cytokines and TriNKET® NK cell engagers can both kill cancers and other disease targets directly, and improve the outcomes of other immunotherapy approaches like T-cell therapies.

November 23, 2021

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces Merck Opt-In of TriNKET™ Immunotherapy Candidate for Patients

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces Merck Opt-In of TriNKET™ Immunotherapy Candidate for Patients

Merck executes option to license its second immunotherapy candidate from the companies' 2018 collaboration for solid tumor targets....

January 12, 2021

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces AbbVie Opt-In of TriNKET™ Immunotherapy Drug Candidate

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces AbbVie Opt-In of TriNKET™ Immunotherapy Drug Candidate

Dragonfly to receive payment for the first Opt-In from AbbVie as part of a multi-target collaboration launched just over 1 year ago.

December 2, 2020

Merck opts in for Dragonfly's TriNKET cancer immunotherapy program

Merck opts in for Dragonfly's TriNKET cancer immunotherapy program

The U.S. Big Pharma is getting its hands on its first TriNKET immunotherapy candidate from the biotech, which comes after the pair...

August 18, 2020

Bristol Myers Squibb to Splash Out $475M on Dragonfly Immunotherapy

Bristol Myers Squibb to Splash Out $475M on Dragonfly Immunotherapy

Bristol Myers Squibb is paying nearly half a billion dollars in up front and near-term payments to license an early-stage immunotherapy...

August 17, 2020

Bristol Myers Squibb pens $475M Dragonfly pact for IL-12 program

Bristol Myers Squibb pens $475M Dragonfly pact for IL-12 program

By Ben Adams Bristol Myers Squibb is paying nearly half a billion in near-term and upfronts to licence Dragonfly Therapeutics’...

July 7, 2020

Bristol Myers Pays Dragonfly $55M to Bring NK Cells to Neuro Diseases

Bristol Myers Pays Dragonfly $55M to Bring NK Cells to Neuro Diseases

Bristol Myers Squibb likes what it sees from the immune cell research of Dragonfly Therapeutics so far—enough to pay $55 million to add...

March 19, 2020

Doing deals in a time of coronavirus

Doing deals in a time of coronavirus

Biotech CEO Bill Haney says 'you focus on the things that make a difference' Fidelity Management and Research has led a new round for...

November 12, 2019

Celgene execs shell out $92M cash for a pair of R&D deals that will fit perfectly in their new home

Celgene execs shell out $92M cash for a pair of R&D deals that will fit perfectly in their new home

Today they’re making their first foray into human studies, with the launch of a Phase I study for their lead drug DF1001 in HER2...

November 9, 2021

Dragonfly Announces DF1001 Granted Orphan Drug Designation in the US for Esophageal Cancer

Dragonfly Announces DF1001 Granted Orphan Drug Designation in the US for Esophageal Cancer

The company announces that its lead TriNKET™ immunotherapy program DF1001, a HER2-targeted NK cell engager therapy...

January 12, 2021

AbbVie selects target for Dragonfly partnership

AbbVie selects target for Dragonfly partnership

Dragonfly’s partnership with AbbVie is beginning to bear fruit.

December 1, 2020

Merck’s Roger Perlmutter buys his first solid tumor TriNKET from Dragonfly

Merck’s Roger Perlmutter buys his first solid tumor TriNKET from Dragonfly

A little more than 2 years after Merck’s Roger Perlmutter signed off on a deal that would pay Dragonfly up to $695 million for each drug...

August 18, 2020

Aiming for immunotherapy boost, Bristol Myers deepens ties with Dragonfly

Aiming for immunotherapy boost, Bristol Myers deepens ties with Dragonfly

Dive Brief: Bristol Myers Squibb has licensed from privately held biotech Dragonfly Therapeutics an experimental immunotherapy that it...

August 17, 2020

Bristol Myers bets $475M cash on a blockbuster shot at breaking the mold in immuno-oncology

Bristol Myers bets $475M cash on a blockbuster shot at breaking the mold in immuno-oncology

With a potential IL-12 game-changer This morning Bristol Myers R&D maestro Rupert Vessey is taking the wraps off one of the biggest cash...

July 6, 2020

A booming Dragonfly is taking its TriNKETs to Copenhagen

A booming Dragonfly is taking its TriNKETs to Copenhagen

As the latest Bristol Myers pact spurs expansion plans -- outside the US Bristol Myers Squibb is making a habit out of collaborating with...

November 20, 2019

AbbVie lines up a new preclinical R&D alliance with the dealmakers at natural killer player

AbbVie lines up a new preclinical R&D alliance with the dealmakers at natural killer player

Bill Haney is building on his rep as one of the most prolific dealmakers in preclinical R&D, adding a new alliance for Dragonfly...

October 2, 2018

Dragonfly Therapeutics in $695M cancer R&D pact with Merck

Dragonfly Therapeutics in $695M cancer R&D pact with Merck

More than a year after insect-inspired biotech Dragonfly Therapeutics penned a blood cancer pact with big biotech Celgene, it's back at...

October 18, 2021

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces Sixth Dragonfly Drug to be Licensed by Bristol Myers Squibb

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces Sixth Dragonfly Drug to be Licensed by Bristol Myers Squibb

The company announces its sixth drug licensed by Bristol Myers Squibb, and the first patients enrolled and dosed in Phase 1 clinical...

December 10, 2020

Special report: Twenty extraordinary women blazing trails in biopharma R&D — Covid-19 and beyond

Special report: Twenty extraordinary women blazing trails in biopharma R&D — Covid-19 and beyond

In the second year of Endpoints News’  budding tradition of highlighting women blazing trails in biopharma R&D, we’ve seen a number of...

November 24, 2020

Dragonfly Therapeutics Expands Leadership Team with Chief Operating Officer

Dragonfly Therapeutics Expands Leadership Team with Chief Operating Officer

and also Strengthens Scientific Advisory Board WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc. ("Dragonfly" or...

August 17, 2020

Dragonfly Therapeutics and Bristol Myers Squibb Announce Exclusive Global License

Dragonfly Therapeutics and Bristol Myers Squibb Announce Exclusive Global License

For Dragonfly’s IL-12 Investigational Immunotherapy Program Agreement Includes DF6002, With Potential to Advance Treatment of Solid...

August 10, 2020

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces BMS Opt-In of Fourth TriNKET™ Immunotherapy Drug Candidate

Dragonfly Therapeutics Announces BMS Opt-In of Fourth TriNKET™ Immunotherapy Drug Candidate

Published: Aug 10, 2020 WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc.. ("Dragonfly" or the "Company"), today...

May 11, 2020

Dragonfly Therapeutics Appoints Head of Clinical Development

Dragonfly Therapeutics Appoints Head of Clinical Development

Published: May 11, 2020 Tapan Maniar M.D. with 10+ years of biotech and pharma experience has been appointed head of clinical development...

November 13, 2019

Dragonfly Therapeutics Initiates Phase 1/2 Study of DF1001 in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors

Dragonfly Therapeutics Initiates Phase 1/2 Study of DF1001 in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors

WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc. ("Dragonfly"), a biotechnology company developing novel...

October 2, 2018

Merck’s cancer R&D juggernaut ties up to little Dragonfly’s natural born killer platform

Merck’s cancer R&D juggernaut ties up to little Dragonfly’s natural born killer platform

with billions on the line A little more than a year after Celgene bellied up to the partnership table with $33 million in cash to ally...

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