Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Immune-system specialty pharma Circassia raises £11M (release)
Cancer-biomarker biotech CS-Keys takes in $6.3M (release)
Neuro-robotic device maker Myomo receives $3M (VentureWire)
Micropharma draws C$1.8M for nutraceutical delivery (VentureWire)
Avalon Labs gets $66M for disposable life-support components (release)
Gloucester Pharma names Alan Colowick as CEO (release)
ConforMIS names Philipp Lang as CEO (release)
Pharma-marketing firm TargetRx names Craig Scott as CEO (release)
Immune-system specialty pharma Circassia raises £11M – Circassia, an Oxford, England biotech focused on immune-system disorders, raised £11 million ($21.8 million) in… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007
Featured companies: Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Aviir, deltaDot, Origen Therapeutics
Heart-diagnostic maker Aviir raises $11.3M — Palo Alto, Calif.-based Aviir, a biotech developing cardiovascular diagnostics based on Stanford research, raised $11.3 million of an expected $25 million second funding round, PE Hub reports. The news is presumably from one of those paper-based SEC filings that are supposed to be digitized before long.
Investors include Bay City Capital, Aberdare Ventures and New Leaf Ventures. Aviir hasn’t said much about its technology… Continue Reading