Life sciences briefing: Friday, Feb. 8, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
AerovectRx takes $1.2M, looks for $5M more for inhaled drugs (VentureWire)
Pointe Conception, endoscopic camera maker, raises $800K (VentureWire)
Orion Healthcare aims for $250 million life-science fund (VentureWire)
Pennsylvania secures half of $10M Radius Venture fund for life sciences (release)
HBM BioVentures to hold Swiss IPO without capital increase, share placement (Thomson)
AerovectRx takes $1.2M, looks for $5M more for inhaled drugs – AerovectRx, a Norcross, Ga., developer of inhaled-drug delivery systems, is closing a $1.2 million seed round, VentureWire… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007
Featured companies: AerovectRx, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Harmony Information Systems, Intelligent Hospital Systems, Merrion Pharmaceuticals, Syntaxin, SymBio Pharmaceuticals
UPDATED: Expanded items on Harmony Info, SymBio Pharma and Merrion Pharma, added Dicerna item.
UPDATE REDUX: Added Syntaxin item.
U.K. biotech Syntaxin raises £16M for pain and nervous-system drugs — Syntaxin, a U.K. biotech focused on drugs that affect cell secretion, raised £16 million ($33.2 million) in a second funding round. The company’s release is here.
Investors in the round included SR One, the venture capital… Continue Reading