LIfe sciences briefing: Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2007

LIfe sciences briefing: Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2007

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Pervasis Thera pulls in $9.8M for regenerative medicine (release)
Embrella Cardio receives $2.3M for stroke-prevention heart-surgery devices (release)
Vivendy Thera raises CHF 17M for rare-disease drug (Private Equity Europe)
Novacta Bio gets £3.5M grant for anti-infective drugs (release)
Metavante acquires health-plan admin software co. Bensoft (release)
Pharma-marketing analyst ImpactRx acquires Paragon Research (release)
Arteriocyte gets $509K grant for stem-cell work (release)
HBM BioVentures shoots for Swiss IPO (Reuters)
Covington Capital assumes control of NGB biotech fund (release)

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