Ginkgo, Novo Nordisk forge ‘flexible’ research pact, from discovery to manufacturing

Gink­go Bioworks is ex­pand­ing its orig­i­nal re­search part­ner­ship with No­vo Nordisk to cov­er the en­tire val­ue chain.

The new pact is a “flex­i­ble and scal­able” new mod­el, the com­pa­nies said in a Wednes­day re­lease. “We’ve cre­at­ed some­thing where it’ll help No­vo to start do­ing a va­ri­ety of projects faster,” Aaron Schwartz, Gink­go’s se­nior di­rec­tor of busi­ness de­vel­op­ment in biotech and phar­ma, told End­points News in an in­ter­view.

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