Archives for July 2007
Cartesia Dx, a Pittsburgh-based company whose technology uses three-dimensional and thermal images to spot inflammation, is the latest startup to receive backing from a local life sciences support group. Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), an […]
18 July 2007 |
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Brendan Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA, company that makes software for immunoassay and bioassay testing technologies, has secured $600,000 in bridge financing.
The firm, which works with such big-name clients as Amgen, Merck and Eli Lilly, will […]
18 July 2007 |
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Roughly a year after a corporate restructuring that separated its bioscience and communications units, Bothell, WA-based Lumera has formed a wholly owned subsidiary for its bioscience business. Called Plexera Biosciences, the subsidiary formalizes the nanotechnology […]
17 July 2007 |
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Novocell, a stem cell engineering company based in San Diego, has raised $25 million in a Series C round. Led by Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation — with participation from existing investors Sanderling Ventures, Asset […]
17 July 2007 |
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PreMD, a Toronto-based company that makes heart-disease and cancer screening tests, has signed a licensing agreement with big pharma for what’s being touted as the world’s first test to use skin cholesterol to assess heart-disease […]
16 July 2007 |
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Nanogen, a San Diego-based diagnostics firm, has acquired the rights to genetic markers related to schizophrenia and responses to antipsychotic therapies — an important step in better understanding the molecular basis of the disease, as […]
13 July 2007 |
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Emergent Technologies, an Austin, TX, venture firm that forms life sciences companies to commercialize university-based technologies, has launched a nanotechnology startup to develop plasma coatings for medical devices.
The new company, AeonClad, was formed after it […]
13 July 2007 |
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A Scottsdale, AZ, firm whose technology is currently being studied for combating bioterrorism has entered its first co-development partnership, to explore alternative applications.
ImmuneRegen BioSciences, a subsidiary of IR BioSciences Holdings, is teaming up with […]
13 July 2007 |
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The National Institutes of Health has launched an online resource for small companies looking to get their technologies in front of potential partners and investors.
Called Pipeline to Partnerships (P2P), the initiative was developed jointly by […]
12 July 2007 |
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Physician conferences are the most effective marketing channel for medical device firms, according to a recently released report from Cutting Edge Information, a healthcare research firm.
The report, Medical Device Product Management: Benchmarking Development, Marketing and […]
12 July 2007 |
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