"Our over-arching mission is to speed up the research, development and prescription of more rational therapies that target the root causes of cancer development in each patient's tumor," said Dr. Chris Torrance, CEO of Horizon, based in Cambridge, U.K. "TGen investigators are visionaries in this respect and we are honored to enable them with Horizon's GENESIS technology to generate a novel pipeline of X-MAN cancer models to support cutting-edge translational oncology research."

Under terms of the collaboration, TGen will use Horizon proprietary technology and know-how to develop a panel of novel cancer cell-lines, which will be licensed back to Horizon for future licensing to the broader academic, biotech and pharma research communities. The parties also have agreed to share, publish and commercialize data from the research program, subject to future commercial terms.

This type of open-source relationship will be replicated in the future by Horizon at selected centers of excellence for translational research with the aim of deciphering the genetic links to cancer and other debilitating diseases.

Source: The Translational Genomics Research Institute