Partnering opportunities - Core Therapeutic Areas

We are looking for high-value, truly differentiating first or best-in-class treatments in:

Focus on areas of high unmet need, build on strong mid/late-stage pipeline

Atherosclerosis

  • Novel approaches to address unmet needs in Cardiovascular Risk Reduction (CVRR)

Cardiovascular

  • Heart Failure
  • Next-generation approaches addressing atrial fibrillation, cardiomyopathies, thrombosis and hypertension
  • Innovative cardiomyocyte-targeted siRNA delivery

Metabolic

  • Novel mechanisms to enable sustained metabolic health

Nephrology

  • Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD)
  • Chronic Kidney Disease (Stage 3b/4)
  • Glomerular diseases, e.g. Alport Syndrome
Avi Spier

Avi Spier

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Focused on high unmet need autoimmune diseases

Dermatology & Allergy

  • Atopic Dermatitis
  • Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSU)
  • Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS)
  • Lichen Planus
  • Vitiligo
  • Food allergy

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn’s Disease
  • Ulcerative Colitis

Rheumatology

  • Lupus Nephritis
  • Sjögren’s disease
  • Spondyloarthropathies
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Exploratory Areas

  • B cell reset
  • Refractory Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Tolerance induction
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Dominic Ehrismann

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Focus on multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative, and neuromuscular diseases

Multiple Sclerosis & Immuno-Neurology

  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Other neuroimmunology diseases (e.g., CIDP & MG)

Neurodegeneration

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
  • Parkinson's Disease (PD)
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Huntington's Disease
  • CNS delivery technologies

Neuromuscular

  • Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1)
  • Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)Larger neuromuscular indications
  • Muscle delivery technologies
Chris Adams

Christopher Adams

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Deliver next generation of transformative medicines in priority disease areas

Solid Tumors

  • Breast cancers
  • Prostate cancers
  • Lung cancers
  • Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancers

Hematology

  • Myeloid malignancies: CML, MPN, AML/MDS
  • Lymphoid malignancies: NHL
  • Non-malignant heme: PNH, ITP, wAIHA

Radioligand Therapy & Imaging

  • Radioligand Therapy (RLT) in solid tumor indications, including novel isotopes, chelators, vectors and targets
  • Radioligand Imaging (RLI) or PET imaging agents
Markus Werner

Markus Werner

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Partnering opportunities - Platforms and AI

We are looking for innovative approaches to accelerate the development of therapeutics:

  • Artificial intelligence/Machine learning (AI/ML) approaches to accelerate discovery and synthesis of new molecular entities
  • Automated synthesis and profiling platforms
  • Novel cyclic peptide screening platforms
Avi Spier

Avi Spier

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  • Novel approaches/platforms that leverage AI/ML and wet lab capabilities for challenging and multi-specific antibody discovery.
  • Targeted delivery and selective tropism to key tissues/cell types
  • Biodistribution, intracellular trafficking and stability assessment of Adeno-associated virus (AAV), Radioligand therapeutics (RLTs), and targeted siRNA conjugates
Gianfranco de Pascale

Gianfranco de Pascale

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  • Novel T-cell-based therapy approaches
  • Approaches to reduce AAV immunogenicity
  • NextGen gene editing (non-viral)
  • Novel approaches for selective gene expression in target cells for GTx
Markus Werner

Markus Werner (Oncology)

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Elizabeth Leshen

Elizabeth Leshen (Rare diseases and neuroscience)

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  • Targeted delivery approaches for RNA therapeutics to extra-hepatic tissues/cell types
  • Innovative siRNA chemistry platforms
  • In vivo/In vitro platforms to identify and validate siRNA targets
Gianfranco de Pascale

Gianfranco de Pascale

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  • Differentiated RLT assets that complement current pipeline and disease focus with novel isotopes, chelators or vectors for tumor specific RLT delivery
  • Explore various combination approaches which are synergistic with RLTs
  • Technologies to expand the therapeutic window of RLTs
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Shona Whyte

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We have embarked on an ambitious transformation to become the leading medicines company powered by data science and digital technologies. Novartis partnering interests around AI platforms aim to:

  • Enable deeper understanding of disease to identify novel therapeutic Targets
  • Power small and large molecule design, optimization and synthesis
  • Accelerate discovery and development of biotherapeutics
  • Enable lab-in-the-loop approaches connecting computational predictions with experimental validation
  • Increase predictive safety
  • Improve trial design and execution
Gianfranco de Pascale

Gianfranco de Pascale

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Partnering opportunities - Other Areas

Interested in biomarker and diagnostic technologies that are designed to optimize the efficiency, safety and therapeutic benefit of our drugs. Technologies may include genomic and proteomic testing as well as artificial intelligence driven solutions.

Guy Greiveldinger

Guy Greiveldinger

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Frank Dieterle

Frank Dieterle

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Seeking partners such as NGOs, academic institutions, and companies to expand and accelerate our portfolio of drugs for neglected diseases, including emerging and tropical infectious diseases.

Charles Bailey

Charles Bailey

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