Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Reaction Biology has acquired Hummelstown, Pennsylvania-based vivoPharm LLC from Vyant Bio, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Founded in 2001, Reaction Biology is a contract research organization that has provided drug discovery and development services to more than 1,800 biopharmaceutical customers worldwide. Reaction has laboratory facilities in Malvern and Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Freiburg, Germany, with approximately 170 employees.

vivoPharm is a contract research organization that offers integrated preclinical services in different disease areas to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

According to the LevinPro HC database, this was the 36th contract research organization transaction of 2022. That compares with 38 contract research organization deals reported between January 1, 2021, and November 7, 2021.