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Managing Partner at Pappas Ventures
President & CEO, Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
Chair, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute; Co-director, Center for Physiological Proteomics, The Scripps Research Institute
Chairman, CEO, & Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Vice President for Corporate Engagement, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Managing Director of Hatteras Discovery and Venture Partner at Hatteras Venture Partners
Chair, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute; Co-director, Center for Physiological Proteomics, The Scripps Research Institute
San Antonio—A San Antonio tech startup that sells Internet-connected tags and other tools to monitor the health and whereabouts of herds of animals has raised $5 million in a new round of funding, according to a securities filing.
HerdX... Read more »
Cancer testing laboratory Genoptix is being acquired by NeoGenomics, another cancer-focused genetic testing business, for $125 million in cash and 1 million NeoGenomics shares.
The buyout comes almost two years after Carlsbad, CA-based Genoptix was bought from Novartis (NYSE: NVS)... Read more »
Jean Poh’s family has been in the jewelry business for four generations. And, for the most part, the industry has operated much the same as it always has, she says.
Following a professional detour in which she worked as an attorney... Read more »
[Corrected 1:38 pm. See below.] Shares of San Diego-based Mirati Therapeutics fell 15 percent Monday as data from an ongoing mid-stage study of one of its experimental cancer drugs disappointed investors.
Mirati (NASDAQ: MRTX) is one of several biotech companies... Read more »
[Ben Fidler co-authored this report.] The European Society for Medical Oncology is wrapping up its annual conference today, replete with clinical data from cancer’s front lines. We’ve sorted the headlines into a few big categories: immunotherapy combinations, breast cancer,... Read more »
Indianapolis-based digital marketing firm PERQ has received another injection of seed capital.
The company announced last week that it secured $5 million in follow-on investments in a seed round initiated in 2016, for a total of $7.5 million raised, says co-founder... Read more »
Ed Kaye stepped aside from Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT) last year after leading the company through one of the most noteworthy and controversial drug approvals in recent memory, for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug eteplirsen (Exondys 51). But his... Read more »
The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech... Read more »
San Antonio—A Czech Republic company called Okin Business Process Services is planning to establish its U.S. headquarters in San Antonio, TX, if it gets some unspecified incentives from the city and county governments that may be voted on next month.... Read more »
Centrexion Therapeutics is notable for focusing solely on developing non-opioid, non-addictive pain drugs—an area that biopharma companies have largely avoided. Now the Boston-based startup wants Wall Street’s help with the effort.
Centrexion has outlined plans for an IPO.... Read more »
Two weeks from today will mark a most special occasion. Xconomy is convening top business and tech leaders from Boston and beyond for a multi-day conference to tackle the most pressing questions in the innovation community.
X·CON 2018 will feature talks... Read more »
The weather is finally starting to cool—I’m a fan of fall —but Michigan’s tech startups and entrepreneurs are still red-hot: they’re raising money, buying competitors and complementary companies, launching new products, and more. Read on for recent news about the state’s... Read more »
Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors, and coaches—free of charge.
Google is picking up the tab for tuition, room, and board for all students accepted into... Read more »
The Medicines Company exited the infectious disease business last year when it sold three bacteria-fighting products to Melinta Therapeutics. But Melinta didn’t get all of the company’s bug-fighting drugs, and what’s left has become a new company—Qpex Biopharma.
San Diego-based Qpex... Read more »
Invenra, a Madison, WI-based startup that develops therapeutic antibodies for pharmaceutical companies and other clients, has raised more than $7.1 million from investors, according to a regulatory filing.
Twenty-three investors participated in the equity funding round, according to the... Read more »
[Updated 10/19/18, 5:08 pm. See below.] Rumors of a Boston adtech sale, a top-level departure at IBM’s Watson Health business, more cash to boost A.I. startups, and Boeing backing a space propulsion company dominate the Boston-area’s tech headlines from... Read more »
Five-year-old biotech TP Therapeutics has raised an $80 million mezzanine financing round and promoted its chief medical officer, Athena Countouriotis, to CEO.
The San Diego-based biotech, which is developing targeted cancer drugs for people whose tumors resist other precision therapies, announced... Read more »
Two new battlegrounds emerged this week in the nation’s ongoing drug pricing debate. The first involved television: The federal government hopes that blaring prices in TV ads will essentially pressure drug makers into lowering them, and the pharma lobby fired back.... Read more »
LogicBio Therapeutics has joined the list of biotechs to go public this year but it had to cut the price of its IPO and sell more shares to pull it off.
The Cambridge, MA, biotech priced its offering of 7 million... Read more »
The race to get driverless cars on the road is a global endeavor, and one nation putting its pedal to the metal is Israel. A host of Israeli companies are working to develop the technologies that help these vehicles function properly,... Read more »
Austin—RealSavvy, a customizable online service that enables real estate brokers and agents to communicate with potential clients, is taking a $2.5 million round of financing that the company will repay in payments based on its monthly revenue.
Timia Capital is... Read more »
Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner.
Madison, WI-based Exact (NASDAQ: EXAS), which is developing diagnostic tests... Read more »
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Founder and Managing Partner, Frazier Healthcare Ventures
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