David P. Hamilton

David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.

stories by David P. Hamilton

Stealthy device maker ExploraMed raises $18.5M

Stealthy Mountain View, Calif.-based ExploraMed NC4 has raised $18.5 million of an expected $20 million first funding round, I’m told. The medical-device startup doesn’t have a Web site, and doesn’t even seem to have its own address yet.

Instead, ExploraMed …

Life-science briefing: Friday, April 11, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Stent maker IDev Tech raises $25M (VentureWire)
Xytis gets $15M for brain-injury drugs (VentureWire)
Diagnostic maker Iris Biotech plans to go public, launch breast-cancer test (Edgar)
RiverVest Venture Partners raises $75M life-science fund (release)
Concentric Medical names Maria

Life-science briefing: Thursday, April 10, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

HealthExtras buys venture-backed PBM HospiScript for $100M (release)
Urological device-maker NeoTract adds $7.4M (VentureWire)
RNAi-drug startup Intradigm seeks $35M (VentureWire)
Israel’s Arbel Medical raises $3.5M for tumor cryotherapy (release)

HealthExtras buys venture-backed PBM HospiScript for $100M — HospiScript …

Life-science briefing: Wednesday, April 9, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Stemline Therapeutics, cancer stem-cell startup, gets $13M (release)
Eye-disease biotech Potentia Pharma raises $12M (release)
Sample-prep toolmaker Arcxis aims for $8M to $10M (VentureWire)
Synvascular names Drew Hoffman as CEO (VentureWire)
ArtusLabs gets $2.6M for life-science software and

Life-science briefing: Tuesday, April 8, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

AGI Dermatics takes in $5M for skincare products (release)
Myconostica raises £3.9 for fungal diagnostics (GenomeWeb)

Germany’s Noxxon gets €1M grant for aptamer drugs (release)

AGI Dermatics takes in $5M for skincare products – Freeport, N.Y.-based AGI Dermatics, …

Life-science briefing: Monday, April 7, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Quark Pharma gets $27M for RNAi drugs (release)
TargetRx takes in $9.6M for physician-prescribing data (release)
D-Pharm raises more than $3M for fat-like drugs (release)

Vortex Medical raises $2.3M for medical devices (VentureWire)
Specialty pharma Ascio takes in

Life-science briefing: Friday, April 4, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

IlluminOss Medical gets $11M for bone-fracture devices (peHUB)
Contract researcher Crown Bioscience takes in funding (release)

IlluminOss Medical gets $11M for bone-fracture devices — East Providence, R.I.-based IlluminOss Medical, a medical-device startup, raised $11 million in a second …

Life-science briefing: Thursday, April 3, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Mirna Thera spins out of Asuragen with $3M (release)
Stroke-therapy startup CoAxia raises $12M (release)
Stealthy device maker Synvascular gets $6.5M (peHUB)
AndroScience seeks $3.5M for anti-testosterone drugs (VentureWire)
Austria’s ProtAffin takes in €1.1M grant (release)
Singapore’s Moleac

Life-science briefing: Wednesday, April 2, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

ProGenTech takes in $21M for DNA purification systems (release)
Diabetes-drug maker Phenomix raises $18M while seeking IPO (Edgar)
Genome-tool maker BioTrove gets $23M in preparation for IPO (Edgar)
Sweden’s DermaGen pulls in more than €1M for dermatitis (release)

Life-science briefing: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Oxford NanoLabs takes in £10M for sequencing tech (PDF release)
Alure Medical raises $4.5M for plastic-surgery implants (release)
Bone-disease biotech Therosteon spins out of research institute, raises funds (PDF release)
Genome-analysis toolmaker BioTrove files for $75M IPO (Edgar)

Stent maker CardioMind starts trial, gets $22M

CardioMind, a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of artery-opening stents, said it launched the first human tests of its experimental product. That milestone triggered the release of $22 million — a second tranche of a $33 million funding the company initially reported …

Life-science briefing: Monday, March 31, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Boston Scientific spinout TriVascular2 takes in $65M (release)
Inhaled-drug startup Transave raises $35M (release)
Triage Wireless gets $20M for vital-signs monitors (release)
Tryton Medical receives $14M for “bifurcation” stents (release)

Synthetic bio startup Codon Devices adds $11M (release)

Life-science briefing: Friday, March 28, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

VaxGen, Raven Bio terminate merger agreement (release)
Aerovance gets $20M in venture debt for respiratory disease (release)
EKOS raises $5M for ultrasound catheters (peHUB)
Intelligent Bio-Systems draws $353K for high-speed genome sequencing (peHUB)
Quintessence Bio takes in $5M