Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES

Sonoma Ortho names Glen Coleman as CEO, preps launch of bone implant (VentureWire)
TechniScan draws $13M for ultrasound CT scanners (release)
OrbiMed plans $150M Asian life-science fund (VentureWire)
Accelerated Tech pulls in $47M, aims for $125M in second

Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

India’s Perfint, medical-device co., raises $3.5M (release)
Source MDx strikes Pfizer partnership to ID cancer, inflammation “fingerprints” (release)
Columbia River Resources acquires pharma RFID maker Traxxec (release)

India’s Perfint, medical-device co., raises $3.5M – Perfint, a Chennai, India-based …

MPM says the game is afoot in India

MPM Capital, a VC firm headquartered in Boston and South San Francisco, Calif., wants to put Indian life-science firms on notice that it’s comin’ a-huntin’. The VC firm told reporters for VentureWire, Reuters and others that it plans to actively …

Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007

Featured companies: AxoGen, Cognition Therapeutics, Ester Neurosciences, Gene Security Network, HealthTalk, MPM Capital, Revolution Health, SparkPeople

UPDATING: Expanded items on AxoGen, Ester and Cognition. Posted full items on MPM (link) and Gene Security Network (link).

AxoGen raises $12M for nerve 

MPM goes after Indian healthcare companies

MPM Capital, a San Francisco venture capital firm focused on healthcare investments, has partnered with Indian biotechnology company Reliance Life Sciences to invest in India.

VentureWire has the story (sub required), and says it is significant because it is one …