Life sciences briefing: Friday, Nov. 9, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Friday, Nov. 9, 2007

Featured companies: Antisense Pharma, Arteriocyte, Excelimmune, Fluxion Biosciences

UPDATED: Expanded items on Antisense Pharma, Arteriocyte, and Excelimmune.

Antisense Pharma raises €27M for cancer drugs — Munich’s Antisense Pharma, a biotech developing gene-silencing drugs against cancer, raised €27 million ($38 million) in a fourth funding round. The company’s PDF release is here.

MIG provided the funding, which the company said will support late-stage trials of its lead drug candidate, AP 12009, in brain cancer. AP 12009 is an “antisense” drug, one… Continue Reading