Call it what you want but this IS a very valuable 'partnership'.
There are 20+ facilities with accredited researchers who live to publish data and discover new things. A publication from this group could be worth it's weight in gold and we now have 24 research teams working on discovery, instead of PPHM, UTSW, and, potentially AZN. For a measly $2,000,000????? Think of what they have spent on their own overhead in the last decade.