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| Jul 19, 2013 | What’s special about the 3 biotechs in the top 10 for Q2 venture investments? | But let’s look a little more closely at the those three biotechnology companies and what they say about what is drawing investor attention. Two of the three provide valuable services to other life science companies. The third has a heart fa... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Pediatric drug developer with treatment for infantile jaundice could reduce readmissions | InfaCare’s drug Stanate was licensed from Rockefeller University. A heme oxygenase inhibitor, Stanate prevents the breakdown of heme in the body. It is designed to significantly reduce the body’s production of bilirubin over a six- to eight... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | DecImmune Therapeutics Completes $2.25M Equity Financing | DecImmune Therapeutics, a Cambridge, MA-based company that develops novel peptides and antibodies for acute, tissue damaging inflammation in myocardial infarction, burns, and other conditions involving vascular injury and reperfusion, compl... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Antibody could reduce longterm effects of myocardial infarction, cut readmissions | Walter Newman is the chief scientific officer for Decimmune and serves on the company’s business and advisory team. In a phone interview with MedCity News, Newman said the company had recently raised $2.25 million to help advance its treatm... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | Cancer therapeutic that causes “executioner” protein to kill cancer cells raises $5M | The latest financing follows a $6 million fresh capital raise last year. In October 2010, it raised $32 million in a Series C round.
Among the company’s institutional investors are Clarus Ventures, HealthCare Ventures, Quaker Partners, Novi... |
| Apr 16, 2012 | Biomarker test firm Cleveland HeartLab eyes health and wellness market | “We’ve become a recognized leader in the identification and prevention of chronic disease ,” Orville said. “Now we have the ability to focus more on other important markets, such as health and wellness companies.”
Cleveland HeartLab recentl... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Former head of Sanofi vaccines division becomes infectious disease biotech CEO | Last year, it was granted a five-year research grant valued up to $196 million by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to fund the development of seasonal and ... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Cleveland HeartLab Completes $18.4M Series B Financing Round | Cleveland HeartLab Inc. (CHL), a specialty clinical laboratory and disease management company, completed an $18.4m Series B financing round.
The investment was led by Excel Venture Management and HealthCare Ventures, with participation from... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Biomarker test firm Cleveland HeartLab closes $18.4M investment | The round was led by Excel Venture Management of Boston and HealthCare Ventures of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with participation from existing investors.
Cleveland HeartLab is a clinical reference laboratory that does an array of lipid and i... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Early stage biotechs face funding gap as VCs seek surer bets, stronger returns | Promoted
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| Jun 16, 2009 | SkinMedica scratches up $9.4M for anti-aging pharmaceuticals | SkinMedica, maker of specialized anti-aging treatments, has raised $9.4 million in equity and rights. It adds this amount to the $103.4 million in venture capital it previously brought in from a bevy of investors including Aisling Capital, ... |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Arresto lands funds to treat cancer and fibrotic disease | Arresto Biosciences, maker of a drug that targets both cancer and fibrotic diseases, just landed an undisclosed third round of funding to push its lead compound closer to clinical trials. The Palo Alto, Calif. company is taking a new approa... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Catalyst lands $40M to combat disease-causing proteins | Catalyst Biosciences has raked in $40.4 million in third-round funding to continue engineering an enzyme called protease to fight disease-causing proteins. The technology has the potential to affect many different diseases, including cancer... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | Can ToleRx Escape the Autoimmunity-Drug-Development Deathtrap? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“Like does not like like that is obnoxious.” Poet Marianne Moore wasn’t thinking of autoimmune diseases when she penned this line but it memorably captures the strife behind t... |
| Biomarker test firm Cleveland HeartLab eyes health and wellness market | After making major inroads among community-based physicians, cardiac inflammation biomarker test company Cleveland HeartLab is looking to expand its business into the health and wellness market.
The Cleveland-based clinical reference labora... |
| Early stage biotechs face funding gap as VCs seek surer bets, stronger returns | Biotechnology companies seeking venture capital got some sobering perspective at the CED Biotech/Life Science Conference this week. Despite the talk of improving market conditions and loosening purse strings leading up to the conference in ... |
| Fibrotic disease company raises $21 million in series D round | A biotechnology company developing therapeutics for fibrotic diseases has raised $21.5 million in a series D round led by a new investor.
The new investment will help Promedior to broaden and advance its therapeutics pipeline. A phase 2 tri... |
| Former head of Sanofi vaccines division becomes infectious disease biotech CEO | The former head of Sanofi’s (NYSE:SNY) vaccines division, one of the largest vaccine companies in the world, has joined a biotechnology company developing infectious disease vaccines as its CEO.
Wayne Pisano will lead Cranbury, New Jersey-b... |
| Biomarker test firm Cleveland HeartLab closes $18.4M investment | Biomarker test-maker Cleveland HeartLab has closed an $18.4 million series B round of funding, which was led by two Boston-area investors.
The size of the round is a testament to the explosive growth that the young company has achieved in l... |
| Antibody could reduce longterm effects of myocardial infarction, cut readmissions | A lean startup is developing therapeutics using a monoclonal antibody to preserve cardiac tissue and help the body heal from the scarring that can result from the restoration of blood flow for a myocardial infarction. Its treatment could he... |
| What’s special about the 3 biotechs in the top 10 for Q2 venture investments? | Cellular engineering, precision medicine, and using G protein-coupled receptors to treat heart failure and other conditions. That’s the focus of the three biotechnology companies that made the top 10 for venture investment deals last quarte... |
| Cancer therapeutic that causes “executioner” protein to kill cancer cells raises $5M | A company with a small molecule cancer treatment to combat solid tumor cancers as well as hematological malignancies has raised $5 million in a combination of debt, options and warrants, according to a Form D filing with the Securities and ... |
| Senseonics raised $20 million to advance continuous glucose monitoring implant | There are just a handful of big medical device companies that dominate the continuous glucose monitoring space and Senseonics is looking to compete with them. It has raised $20 million across two tranches from current investors to advance a... |
| Pediatric drug developer with treatment for infantile jaundice could reduce readmissions | A pediatric drug developer has raised $3.55 million — the first tranche of a $21.5 million series C Round to advance its drug to treat infantile jaundice or hyperbilirubinemia through a phase 2 clinical trial. It initiated recruitment for t... |