Life sciences briefing: Friday, Nov. 9, 2007
Featured companies: Antisense Pharma, Arteriocyte, Excelimmune, Fluxion Biosciences
UPDATED: Expanded items on Antisense Pharma, Arteriocyte, and Excelimmune.
Antisense Pharma raises €27M for cancer drugs — Munich’s Antisense Pharma, a biotech developing gene-silencing drugs against cancer, raised €27 million ($38 million) in a fourth funding round. The company’s PDF release is here.
MIG provided the funding, which the company said will support late-stage trials of its lead drug candidate, AP 12009, in brain cancer. AP 12009 is an “antisense” drug, one… 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