China's pharma interested in European assets; Chiromics announced alliances with 2 Big Pharma partners;

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And Finally... Chiromics--a company attacking the challenges of drug discovery by generating chemical libraries with "Accessible Complexity"--has announced a strategic alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb that includes grants of non-exclusive license for use of Chiromics' chemical compound library. Chiromics also announced a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline to discover new classes of small molecules. BMS release | GSK release