Life-science briefing: Friday, March 14, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES
Cantimer takes in $2M for dehydration diagnostics (VentureWire)
Recodagen launches, takes aim at cancer (release)
Juniper Diagnostics spins out of ChemSensing (VentureWire)
Cantimer takes in $2M for dehydration diagnostics –The mystery of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cantimer has resolved a bit. We wrote about this stealthy company back in December and reached the conclusion that the company was developing a particular type of nanosensor intended to identify water levels in human tissue.
Now VentureWire reports that Cantimer is doing… Continue Reading
Cantimer, a nanosensor startup, names new CEO
Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cantimer, a stealthy developer of sensor technology with biomedical, biodefense and consumer applications, named Robin Stracey as its new CEO. The company’s release is here.
Cantimer’s Web site is still a stub, although it describes the company as “focusing on assessment of human hydration using effective and innovative sensor technology.” Cantimer’s founder and now former CEO, Ray Stewart, is a serial entrepreneur who previously worked as a principle at BayMaterials, a high-tech materials… Continue Reading