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Roche Venture Fund, Enterprise Ireland Commit EUR3.3 M to Opsona Series B Financing

DUBLIN, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Completed Series B Total Stands at EUR21.3 m Opsona Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced that Roche Venture Fund and Enterprise Ire...

Investors commit $3.4 million to Imago

Madison, Wis. - Two weeks after solidifying its global market position with a key acquisition, Imago Scientific Instruments Thursday boosted its line of working capital as well. The company announced that it will receive $3.4 million in equity funding from three venture capital sources. Imag...

Angel investors commit $12.7B in first half of `06

Durham, N.H. - American angel investors continue to be the largest source of seed and start-up capital in the nation, investing $12.7 billion in the first half of 2006, an increase of 15 percent over the same period in 2005, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New H...

Biotechnology Value Fund Urges Stockholders to Remove and Replace Current Board of Avigen, Inc. in an Effort to Protect and Maximize Stockholder Value

...saction to stockholders for approval - ensuring that stockholders will get a true say in the future of Avigen. We believe the Board's failure to commit exclusively to a transaction that offers downside protection based on the Company's liquidation value suggests that the Board is considering other opt...

Monsanto's Historic R&D Investment has Contributed to Mid-20s Gross Profit Growth for Its Seeds and Genomics Segment

...be the leading company delivering innovations to farmers that help them maximize their farm's potential. That technology leadership has allowed us to commit to more than doubling our gross profit from 2007 through 2012 as we expand the availability of our technologies to farmers around the world." Th...

Cytopia Letter to Progen Shareholders

... have been asking for choice in how their capital is dealt with. The current board's response has been to propose only a limited share buy-back and to commit the rest of your funds to a merger with an HIV company. Cytopia and 14 other shareholders requisitioned the company on 28 January 2009 to call a ...

Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. Requests Avigen Board to Provide Critical Information to Stockholders

...ing a meeting date for early April. 2. Why has Avigen not offered downside protection to stockholders? BVF has repeatedly called on Avigen to commit to protecting stockholder value by offering all stockholders a fixed amount of cash under any resulting scenario. Management has continually resisted ...

Alexza Consolidates Operations to Focus Resources on AZ-004 (Staccato(R) Loxapine) for Acute Agitation

...pment agreement for AZ-003 (Staccato fentanyl), a product development candidate that has completed Phase 1 clinical testing. Alexza does not intend to commit additional resources to AZ-003 during 2009. Alexza expects to reduce its expenses by approximately $21.5 million, net of severance costs, for f...

New Initiative Focuses on Water Quality Improvement in the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico

...r birds and other wildlife. Audubon will broadly communicate these best practices throughout the Mississippi River watershed. * Monsanto will commit more than $5 million to support all of the projects. Monsanto will also work actively with all the four groups to share data generated from all projec...

Oslo and Toulouse Cancer Clusters Join Forces to Drive European Cancer Research Forward

...UL COMBINED APPROACH TO IMI PLANNED Under the terms of the agreement, Oslo Cancer Cluster NCE with Cancer-Bio-Sante Cluster and Toulouse Canceropole commit to cooperate in the fight against cancer, to create new business and industries and to stimulate exchanges and investments, through good practice and ...

Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests, a new study shows

...ose pressures might be reduced. A recent initiative, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, has encouraged 40 per cent of the palm oil industry to commit to saving wildlife on and around plantations. The scientists hope that the Roundtable will continue to attract many of the remaining 60 per cent. I...

RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea

...acks and plots at sea, including the 2004 bombing of the Philippine ship SuperFerry 14 that killed 116 people. Acts of piracy -- boarding a ship to commit theft or another crime -- totaled 2,463 actual or attempted incidents between 2000 and 2006, according to the report. The overall problem is almost ce...

Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Breaks Ground for Global Pharmaceutical Services Company's North American Headquarters

... The company is also eligible to apply for a $10 million loan through the Citizens Job Bank program, which offers low-interest loans to companies that commit to creating or expanding jobs in Pennsylvania. Since January 2003, GAT has successfully completed 1,014 projects statewide. The projects represent c...

Angiotech to Establish Separate Operating and Royalty Businesses

... Ares Management and New Leaf Venture Partners commit To Purchase Convertible Notes in New Subsidiary of $200 to $300 Million Transaction Proceeds to be Used to Reduce Angiotech Debt VANCOUV...

RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea

...acks and plots at sea, including the 2004 bombing of the Philippine ship SuperFerry 14 that killed 116 people. Acts of piracy -- boarding a ship to commit theft or another crime -- totaled 2,463 actual or attempted incidents between 2000 and 2006, according to the report. The overall problem is almost ce...

Memory Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... Amgen focused on the development of PDE10 inhibitors for certain neurological and psychiatric disorders. Memory Pharmaceuticals agreed to commit and fund certain preclinical research resources and provide increased access to its screening technologies to the collaboration for an additio...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) Announces Largest Grants Slate Ever: $100 Million to Speed Delivery of Breast Cancer Discoveries, Cures

... research collaboration and cost efficiencies, arrive at reliable and replicable research results more quickly, motivate bright young investigators to commit to breast cancer research careers and keep career researchers intensely focused on breast cancer. "We've made it clear that our money will fund proj...

Mothers of Victims Applaud Federal Effort to Collect DNA Upon Arrest

...used or suspected of crimes, we will not even solicit their names or drivers licenses. We should just politely ask if they have committed or intend to commit any other crimes we should know about, and then take them at their word. In Virginia, where the state has required DNA for these felony arrestees sinc...

Mercury Therapeutics, Inc: Marquant Appointed to Advise on Strategic and Partnering Opportunities

...e experience and industry connections that Marquant brings will enable us to spread the MTI story widely and attract high profile partners prepared to commit to financially attractive transactions." Neal C. Birnberg, Ph.D., MTI's CEO, said: "We are pleased to have selected Marquant Partners as Mercury's a...

Memory Pharmaceuticals Refocuses to Advance Development and Clinical Programs

... focused on the development of PDE10 inhibitors for certain neurological and psychiatric disorders. Memory Pharmaceuticals has agreed to commit and fund certain preclinical research resources and provide increased access to its screening technologies to the collaboration over the...

Kosan Announces Senior Management Changes and Clinical Portfolio Priorities

...s for which KOS-1584 has demonstrated potential activity. -- Kosan will withdraw Hsp90 inhibitor alvespimycin from development in order to commit resources to the development of tanespimycin for the treatment of breast cancer as a result of a comparative analysis with tanespimycin base...

Cepheid Receives Health Canada Medical Device License for Xpert MRSA(TM) Test and GeneXpert(R) System

...ian infection control officers have recommended that hospitals make prevention of healthcare acquired infections a patient safety priority, and should commit adequate resources to screening and implementation of other preventative measures. According to the March 2007 Ontario Provincial Infectious Disease A...

Highlights of Economic and Business Growth in the Tampa Bay Region

...nd convenience of private aircraft. Corporate Eagle will start marketing to Tampa Bay-area companies this spring and base a plane here for clients who commit to buy an aircraft share when the terminal opens in the fall, he said. The company will start with about 10 employees, including mechanics performing ...

BioLife Solutions Outsourcing Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Order Fulfillment to Bioserv Corporation

...n. And having Bioserv warehouse our inventory and fulfill orders will also enable us to reduce production and other operating expenses and allow us to commit additional resources to expanding our sales and scientific teams, which will better position BioLife to execute its growth plan." About Bioserv Corpo...

Commentary: Is our Biosphere too cheesy?

...re was the handful of social and networking meetings, all of which mentioned the upcoming Arizona Bio Expo (April 25-26) and legislative promises to commit more than $400 million to Arizonas universities for high-tech research laboratories. No, I was not talking to scientists or politicians eager to boast...

Double header for research dollars from Washington

...nd biotech in general are on the radar screen of venture capitalists nationwide. There are a number of venture capital firms that are beginning to commit investments in that sector, Hefty said. The hope is to cure diseases and improve the quality of life and hopefully, those efforts will come together ...

Are You Ready for Identity Theft?

...s you probably are not very concerned about if it hasn't happened to you. But, in his career, he says he does not know of any crime that was easier to commit and easier to get away with than identity theft. It is simple to assume someone elses identity. A thief can gather personal information by hacki...

West Coast VC Establishes Midwest Presence in Madison

...g telecommunications as well as searching out and identifying breakthrough technologies in areas such as fuel-cell technologies. Frazier prefers to commit to early-stage investments in a lead or co-lead position on investments but, is willing to look to re-capitalize existing companies with good ideas th...

Affinity Health Streamlines IT Governance

...tives that are the most valuable to its patients. Affinity has been able to prioritize such investments as portal capabilities for its patients and commit IT dollars as a result of a new portfolio management system from Portland-based software vendor ProSight , a provider of top-down portfolio managemen...

High-Tech Economic Development in Southeastern Wisconsin

... economy. Technology-based businesses have yet not reached their potential to fuel the state's economy. DeVol further commented that Wisconsin must commit resources toward risk capital, infrastructure and skilled workers in order for the for the state to improve its rankings in the high-tech sector as tr...

E-Mail Collaboration Problems

... still waiting for well-behaved e-mail with collaboration benefits, that do not requite manual intervention. We desire a program that will not make us commit to beefing up our back office servers? Is there a better solution. Maybe. If you know of one please let us know! ...

Angel investor boot camp advises and educates cherubs

...s goals and community. Hudson emphasized inviting only accredited investors into new angel networks and identifying a champion investor, someone to commit a significant amount of time to the group, are fundamental steps to success. Other major steps, according to Hudson, in creating an angel group ar...

Vertical partnering: Street smarts for a tough marketplace

...te clearly the value propositions and benefits that will be gained from the relationship. Define the way risk will be shared among partners. commit to total openness, honesty and transparency in the partnership. ...

Want to squeeze U.S. pharmaceutical companies? Be careful what you ask for

... grow beyond the usual high-risk vaccine recipients to include healthy adults, who could be lost to the workforce in an epidemic. The government could commit to buying a certain number of doses at a given price each year, easing much of the uncertainty. A public program could provide flu shots for uninsured...

Simple versus simple-minded

...re cost of development and deployment? Probably not. If youre going to commit to simple in your IT shop, you have to commit to the pre-conditions for simple, which are anything but. If simple IT is t...

Midwest angel investment in life sciences on the rise

...h America, most members of angel groups invest between $25,000 and $100,000 in each deal (but can go as high as $250,000). Groups may be willing to commit additional funds in subsequent financings. According to market research: 20 percent of angels invested $25,000 or less per deal (in one to four de...

Star panel re-evaluates Sarbanes-Oxley one year in at SEC headquarters

...rols can only provide reasonable assurance that objectives will be met, including the prevention of fraud. The bottom line is that if someone wants to commit fraud badly enough, they can do it with or without Sarbanes-Oxley. The hope is that Sarbanes-Oxley will make it more difficult for fraudsters, and ...

Financing of biotech companies so far in 2005: A Midwest odyssey

...d where and who the money will come from. Most angel investors aren't repetitive investors. They are in for a single round whereas most VCs usually commit for two or more rounds but may exact a greater cost of financing as a result. As I have said in the past, the success of both the angel and VC investo...

Tech vendors could be liable for customer behavior - and not just file sharing

...manufacturer can still be found liable if evidence shows that the manufacturer has promoted the usefulness of the product it distributes as a means to commit infringement that is, they induce third parties to infringe copyrighted material. The court found that "one who distributes a device with the obje...

Local TV advertising - Super Bowl vs. super bargain

...n ad appears. Do it again. And, again. Television advertising results aren't immediate. You won't see a boost in sales resulting from a single ad. commit to a campaign that delivers a moderate or heavy dose of TV ads for 2-3 weeks. Then wait 1-2 weeks and repeat the dose. Concentrate your efforts. W...