Roxro Pharma raises $43M for pain drugs

Roxro Pharmaceuticals, a Menlo Park, Calif., specialty pharmaceutical company focused on pain drugs, raised $42.7 million in a second funding round. The company’s release is here (PDF).

Founded in 1999, Roxro acquires discarded or failed drugs from other companies and …

QuatRx Pharma draws $44M after pulling IPO

Ann Arbor, Mich., specialty pharmaceutical company QuatRx Pharmaceuticals raised $44 million in a fifth funding round following the withdrawal of its initial offering last July. Like the much better-known Jazz Pharmaceuticals, QuatRx acquires drugs from other companies in order to …