Gianluca Carrera
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2026-09-21——

AbbVie and Iambic announce multi-year AI drug discovery collaboration in immunology, neuroscience and oncology

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On 21 September 2026, AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Iambic announced a multi-year collaboration applying Iambic's AI platform to small molecule drug discovery across immunology, neuroscience and oncology. Iambic will receive an upfront payment and is eligible for success-based milestone payments and tiered royalties on net sales from products generated from the collaboration.

What happened

  • Announced 21 September 2026 by AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Iambic as a multi-year collaboration across immunology, neuroscience and oncology.
  • The collaboration will utilize Enchant v3, Iambic's next-generation multimodal transformer model, trained on over 6,000 molecular properties, along with NeuralPLexer.
  • Iambic will receive an upfront payment and is eligible for success-based milestone payments and tiered royalties on net sales from products generated from the collaboration; no dollar figures were disclosed.
  • AbbVie full-year 2025 net revenues were $61.160 billion, with immunology at $30.406 billion, neuroscience at $10.767 billion and oncology at $6.655 billion.

Sources

  1. news.abbvie.com — primary
  2. news.abbvie.com — party background
  3. sec.gov — party background
  4. iambic.ai — party background
  5. cnbc.com — party background

Announced 2026-09-21 · Added to the register 2026-09-30

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