Novocell: With diabetes study pending, investors pony up another $25M

Novocell: With diabetes study pending, investors pony up another $25M

Novocell, a San Diego embryonic stem-cell company, raised $25 million in a third round of funding. That’s presumably a bit of a letdown for the company, which had previously hoped to pull in as much as $35 million in the round. I wrote earlier about… Continue Reading

Koronis: Mutating HIV into extinction

Koronis: Mutating HIV into extinction

(UPDATED: See below.)

Seattle’s Koronis Pharmaceuticals, a biotech focused on antiviral drugs that cleverly attempt to to drive viruses into extinction, got some serious validation yesterday when it raised $20 million to fund a mid-stage “proof of principle” trial for its leading AIDS drug.

Koronis, which was founded… Continue Reading