Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Tech Transfers column provides a monthly update on technology transfer deals, reporting licensing agreements between companies and universities or other research institutions within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals sectors.

START-UP’s monthly update on life science technology transfer deals--licensing agreements between companies and universities or other research institutions--in the fields in vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, research/analytical equipment & supplies and medical devices.

The Dealmaking column is a survey of recent transactions, including strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions, and financings, in the life sciences industries. Deals are listed by the following industry sectors: in vitro diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and research/analytical instrumentation and reagents. All transactions are excerpted from Elsevier's Strategic Transactions database, providing comprehensive transaction coverage from 1991 to the present.

When Tony Blair joined Bill Clinton by satellite link to the White House in 2000 to announce the sequencing of the human genome, biotech stocks soared with the implication that genomics would result in a cure for any disease. Even today, nearly twelve years, recently approved targeted therapies for blood and skin cancers imply that the application of genomic data and molecular biology can result in a treatment for most unmet clinical needs, eventually.