'Unprecedented' collaboration news not what Auris ordered

29 November 2017

On the day after Swiss biotech Auris Medical Holding (Nasdaq: EARS) announced its latest failure in an otolaryngology trial, the US start-up that claims to be a leader in hearing therapeutics has announced a collaboration with a big-name drugmaker.

Decibel Therapeutics, founded by hearing experts and launched in late 2015 by Third Rock Ventures with SR One, the independent corporate healthcare venture capital fund of UK pharma major GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), has teamed up with US biotech company Regeneron (Nasdaq: REGN).

The collaboration, which gives Decibel access to Regeneron’s scientific expertise rather than handing over rights to the larger company for a certain candidate, is aimed at discovering and developing therapeutics for hearing loss and tinnitus.

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