Life sciences briefing: Friday, Feb. 22, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
HemCon Medical acquires Alltracel Pharma (release)
Transoma Medical, implantable wireless device maker, withdraws its IPO (Edgar)
Oracle Healthcare cuts Precision Thera acquisition price by roughly 15 percent (release)
MedBillManager adopts change:healthcare name, aims for March 3 relaunch release
Another slow news day, as yesterday we covered most of the fundings other sites are writing about today. I’ll update if anything else crops up. In the meantime, feel free to check out yesterday’s briefing or any other items here.
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Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
H-P “great-grandchild” Alverix raises $7.7M for portable diagnostic devices (release)
Moksha8 takes in $39M to commercialize drugs for Asia (peHUB)
Dynogen Pharma goes public, gets $98M in reverse merger (release)
EKR Thera raises funds, pays up to $170M to “reacquire” PDL BioPharma drug (release))
R4 Vascular receives $4.4M for vascular-access devices (VentureWire)
Medical tube and syringe maker Amsino Medical sells stake to Baring PE Asia (release)
Implantable-diagnostic maker Transoma Medical postpones IPO (IPOhome)
H-P “great-grandchild” Alverix raises $7.7M for portable… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Drug-screening tool maker IonGate Bio raises €4.6M (release)
Protein-drug maker Molecular Partners gets $5M up front in Centocor deal (PDF release)
ProtaGen takes in €1M for protein biochips (PDF release)
China’s Sundia MediTech, a contract research organization raises second round (release)
Vital-signs implant maker Transoma Medical sets IPO terms, aims for $78M (Edgar)
UMD receives $1M grant for Baltimore biotech incubator (TechJournal South)
Drug-screening tool maker IonGate Bio raises €4.6M — IonGate Biosciences, a Frankfurt, Germany, developer of tools for… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Friday, Oct. 12, 2007
Featured companies: CeraPedics, Lab21, Incisive Surgical, Orasi Medical, Transoma Medcal, ZyGem
(UPDATED: Expanded items on Transoma, Lab21 and Orasi.)
Medical-device maker Transoma files for $75M IPO — St. Paul, Minn.-based Transoma Medical, a developer of implantable wireless diagnostic sensors, filed to raise $75 million in an initial offering. The company is currently focused on the markets for heart patients and general biomedical research.
Transoma received FDA “clearance” for its first product on Oct. 1. That device, called the Sleuth ECG… Continue Reading