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• FDA Panel Splits on Lilly Arthritis Drug, Backs Lower of Two Doses

  Eli Lilly said enough to convince an FDA advisory panel that its experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug is effective in treating the inflammatory disorder. But on safety, the independent experts were not uniformly persuaded, and they voted to recommend approval only for... Read more »

  Frank Vinluan4/23/18

• San Antonio Healthcare Group Plans Boot Camp for Healthtech Startups

  San Antonio—A life sciences professional development and advocacy group in San Antonio, The Health Cell, is hosting a three-day boot camp for researchers, scientists, and entrepreneurs who want to start or join a healthtech company.

  The event is taking place... Read more »

  David Holley4/23/18

• Techstars Alexa Firms Address Settings Where Voice Is ‘Most Natural’

  Smart speakers are becoming increasingly common in our homes. Users can instruct these devices to order takeout, give the weather forecast, or turn on or off various Internet-connected devices.

  The Consumer Technology Association estimates that nearly 44 million voice-enabled assistants will... Read more »

  Angela Shah4/23/18

• Trade War Looming, 3D Printing Startup Formlabs Ups China Investment

  Formlabs sees China as one of the keys to expanding 3D printing technology’s role in manufacturing, and the Massachusetts-based startup plans to grow its business there with the help of a recent $30 million venture funding round and some new investors... Read more »

  Jeff Engel4/23/18

• Sage Postpartum Depression Drug Heads to FDA Review

  A new treatment for postpartum depression has inched closer to market.

  Sage Therapeutics this morning filed for FDA approval of brexanolone, which could become the company’s first marketed product as well as the first-ever drug approved specifically for PPD, which affects... Read more »

  Ben Fidler4/23/18

• Life Sci Veteran Garabedian Talks Up Biotech Accelerator in Texas

  San Antonio — For early stage researchers at universities and other institutions, the idea of finding enough money to bring a drug or medical device to market can seem daunting, if not entirely hopeless.

  Grants and angel networks can cover some... Read more »

  David Holley4/23/18

• Tocagen Reaches Exclusive Deal in China for Brain Cancer Therapy

  Roughly a year and a half after Tocagen (NASDAQ: TOCA) named Marty Duvall as CEO, the San Diego biotech said it has signed a deal that gives Beijing-based ApolloBio an exclusive license to its gene therapy treatment for a deadly... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow4/20/18

• Using Analytics, Fitcode Aims to Connect Shoppers to Jeans That Fit

  There are few things more universal in wardrobes the world over than blue jeans. But they are also the number one item that is returned by online shoppers, says Rian Buckley, founder and CEO of Fitcode.

  “Fit is the number one... Read more »

  Angela Shah4/20/18

• Here Are the Companies in Gener8tor’s Madison 2018 Accelerator Class

  Two companies headquartered in Florida and two others based in Gener8tor’s home state of Wisconsin are among the six startups participating in the organization’s latest for-equity accelerator program.

  Gener8tor, which invests in startups and coaches the entrepreneurs who run them,... Read more »

  Jeff Buchanan4/20/18

• Cybersecurity Innovation Is Key as Nations Move to Digital Hostilities

  As the under secretary responsible for U.S. cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration, Suzanne Spaulding was watching out for signs of vote tampering or disruptions on Nov. 8, 2016, as citizens cast their ballots for the... Read more »

  Bernadette Tansey4/20/18

• Pivotal Notches $555M IPO to Boost Enterprise Software in the Cloud

  Pivotal Software is the latest to jump into an improving public market for tech companies—the San Francisco-based software business is raising $555 million in its initial public offering today.

  Pivotal said it priced 37 million shares for $15 apiece in the... Read more »

  David Holley4/20/18

• Biogen Pays $1B to Broaden Ionis Pact, Betting More on RNA Drugs

  Biogen will pay Ionis Pharmaceuticals $1 billion to expand their current partnership, doubling down on the RNA drugmaking technology that brought the spinal muscular atrophy drug nusinersen (Spinraza) to market.

  Ionis (NASDAQ: IONS) gets $325 million in cash up front... Read more »

  Ben Fidler4/20/18

• Bio Roundup: Hope for Lungs, Bradner’s Complaint, FDA Nods & More

  The biggest news this week was in oncology, hands down. Merck showed that its immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda) might become a common option for many patients newly diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, but the bigger picture is that the field is moving... Read more »

  Alex Lash4/20/18

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• Boston Tech Watch: Kyruus, Kolide, Nano-C, BookingBug

  Time to catch up on the latest tech headlines from the Boston area:

  —Westwood, MA-based Nano-C said it closed an $11.5 million funding round that was capped off by a $3 million investment from Ray Stata, the co-founder of Norwood, MA-based... Read more »

  Jeff Engel4/20/18

• Techstars Anywhere Inaugural Class Takes Virtual Graduation Walk

  [Corrected 4/20/09, 5:35 am. See below.] From Adelaide to Toronto, the Techstars accelerator that began in Boulder, CO, runs 39 programs in 27 cities around the world—with the prerequisite that admitted startups must relocate, if necessary, to the city... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow4/19/18

• Safety Concerns Linger for Lilly’s Arthritis Drug as FDA Panel Looms

  FDA staffers have expressed significant concerns about the side effects tied to Eli Lilly’s experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib (Olumiant), which is once again up for review after the agency rejected it last year.

  Next week, a panel of independent experts... Read more »

  Frank Vinluan4/19/18

• Baird: Exact Sciences Should Rebound After First-Quarter ‘Headwinds’

  Cancer screening test company Exact Sciences may not be anticipating the release of its first-quarter earnings report next week as eagerly as it has past quarters’ earnings announcements. The Madison, WI-based company in February signaled to investors that sales of its... Read more »

  Jeff Buchanan4/19/18

• Ford Offers Non-Emergency Medical Transport with New GoRide Service

  Proponents of mobility and autonomous vehicle technologies say those innovations have a lot of humanity-improving potential.

  Self-driving cars will dramatically reduce congestion and accidents, they say, and will allow elderly and disabled people to get around more independently. One future scenario... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson4/19/18

• Shapeways Adds $30M to Push “Mass Personalization” Via 3D Printing

  Shapeways, a New York-based 3D printing company, has raised $30 million in new funding to help expand its services for product designers aspiring to build successful small businesses.

  Shapeways, which has raised more than $100 million to date, operates an... Read more »

  Jeff Engel4/19/18

• 5 Takeaways From Robo Madness 2018 at iRobot

  A who’s who of robotics and artificial intelligence experts gathered at iRobot’s headquarters in Bedford, MA, last week. The occasion was Xconomy’s fourth annual Robo Madness conference, and you can check out photos from the event here.

  Here are... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang4/19/18

• Agenda Posted for Xconomy’s What’s Hot in Boston Biotech on May 16

  Join Xconomy next month for our sixth installment of What’s Hot in Boston Biotech on May 16 at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. We’re convening an elite group of life sciences executives, researchers, investors from the Boston area and... Read more »

  Ashley Gentile4/19/18

• BenevolentAI Raises $115M For Drug Discovery, Pegs Valuation at $2.1 Billion

  BenevolentAI, one of the companies vying to improve healthcare through artificial intelligence analysis, says it has raised $115 million to accelerate its drive to discover new drugs by studying disease processes at the molecular level.

  The London-based company, which... Read more »

  Bernadette Tansey4/19/18

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• 10xBio Raises $2.7M to Test Body Sculpting Drug in Clinical Trial

  John Dobak, a life sciences serial entrepreneur in San Diego, said a new startup he’s leading has raised $2.66 million to advance a drug that is already approved to shrink varicose veins through early-stage clinical trials testing it in a new... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow4/19/18

• Surface Oncology’s Upsized IPO Reels In $108M for Lead Cancer Drug

  Surface Oncology has raised $108 million from an initial public offering to finance clinical testing of its lead cancer immunotherapy.

  Cambridge, MA-based Surface priced its offering of 7.2 million shares at $15 each. The company had previously planned to sell 6... Read more »

  Frank Vinluan4/18/18

• NorthStar, Fiserv, CUNA & More: This Week’s Wisconsin Watchlist

  Stay current on news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:

  —NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, which is seeking to become the first U.S. company in decades to domestically produce a widely used medical radioisotope, broke ground on a new 20,000-square-foot production... Read more »

  Jeff Buchanan4/18/18

• Easy Expunctions Wins $100,000 San Antonio Investment Competition

  San Antonio—Easy Expunctions, a Texas startup that moved its business for expunging criminal records to San Antonio from Austin in 2016, has won a local startup pitch competition hosted by Capital Factory and Geekdom and, along with it, a $100,000... Read more »

  David Holley4/18/18

• Detroit Tech School Trains Vets, Returning Citizens for Tech Careers

  Tucked away in Southwest Detroit, not too far from the geodesic Buckminster Fuller domes built by Jack White’s brother, sits the Detroit School of Digital Technology (DSDT).

  Unlike many other tech schools, DSDT is a woman-owned organization that specializes in... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson4/18/18

• Cancer Wrap: Blueprint, Checkmate, More AACR News & Phase 3 Blues

  The big headlines from the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Chicago were all about the battle over the latest lung cancer data, and for good reason. Lung cancer remains the deadliest cancer, but the Phase 3 data suggest... Read more »

  Alex Lash4/18/18

• Robo Madness 2018: Homecoming—The Photos

  We had a blast at our fourth annual Robo Madness conference in the Boston area, and we hope you did, too. The theme this year was homecoming—the idea that robotics and artificial intelligence have started to seep into our lives and... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang4/18/18

• After FDA Approves Bone Disease Drug, Ultragenyx Sets $200K Price

  Patients who have rickets experience a softening and weakening of their bones traced to a vitamin deficiency. In a rare, inherited form of the disease, vitamin D supplements don’t work.

  Ultragenyx (NASDAQ: RARE) has received FDA approval for a drug... Read more »

  Frank Vinluan4/17/18

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