Astellas Pharma Inc (ALPMY)

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SPORT19, thanks for the Astellas link. I find this portion of the interesting:

"Partnering plays a tactical role as well as in-house research and development. Astellas will work with a variety of partners to provide medical solutions to our patients with high unmet medical needs.

"Astellas established dedicated management teams to strengthen our partnerships including the AIM (Astellas Innovation Management) team, which promotes intake early stage innovation, BD (Business Development) team, which finds potential partners and actively develops business, and AVM (Astellas Venture Management) team, which conducts private equity investments in early-stage biotech start-ups to foster its R&D and business for reinforcing Astellas’ pipeline. In the field of Rx+® business, the Rx+ BA (Rx+ Business Accelerator) team leads exploration of innovation, collaboration with partners, and investment in start-ups, dedicatedly and independently of prescription drugs. Working together with external partners, Astellas will turn innovative science into VALUE for patients."

I understand that Astellas does a lot of work with Stem Cells. PKTX's AAGP has been proven to prolong the life of a stem cell. I hope PKTX and ALPMY will find common ground to work together.