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Pharmas Flock to Sermo, Biogen Idec Takes Another Tack with MS, $400M More for the Broad Institute, & More Life Sciences News
This week’s Boston-area life sciences news has a little bit of everything—venture deals, new drugs, lawsuits, and a...

20 hours ago

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The “Augmenix” Question: Can Amar Sawhney Do It Again with Latest Hydrogel Startup?
Amar Sawhney has turned a number of products based on his hydrogel inventions into FDA-approved products and rich paydays for...

21 hours ago

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Broad Institute Gets $400M Endowment From Namesakes
The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, which is focused on genomic research, is planning to announce Thursday morning its...

1 day ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Boston, Boston blog..., National blog..., Life Sciences

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Corporate Life Sciences VCs on the Rise in New England—the List
Some of the most exclusive clubs in the Boston area aren’t actually clubs at all, they are venture capital firms, where...

2 days ago

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Oncothyreon To Sell Stock, Bet Resources on Developing Two Cancer Drugs
Oncothyreon, a Seattle biotech company developing drugs against cancer, said today it is planning to sell 5.1 million more...

3 days ago

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Targanta Antibiotic Shown Effective in Less-Frequent Dose
Targanta Therapeutics, the Cambridge,MA-based developer of potent hospital-based antibiotics, is on the rise today. The...

3 days ago

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Ariad Pharmaceuticals Edging Toward Becoming a Commercial Cancer Drug Company
Investors may not be in the mood to hear it when most portfolios are in the gutter, but life goes on during downturns at...

3 days ago

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Boston Scientific Gets Damages Reduced in Patent Case with Medtronic
Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) said today it scored a victory with a U.S. District Court in Texas. A jury had previously...

7 days ago

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ZymoGenetics Sells Land for $11.5 Million
ZymoGenetics, the Seattle biotech company that markets Recothrom for surgical bleeding, said today in a regulatory filing that...

7 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Seattle, Seattle..., Biotech, Life Sciences

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North Shore Biotech Accelerator Wins State Grant
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the state’s development agency for the innovation economy, says it awarded a...

7 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Boston, Boston briefs, Life Sciences, deals

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Impel NeuroPharma Develops Novel Delivery System to Get Drugs Into the Brain
Lots of drugs struggle to get into the brain. John Hoekman, the co-founder and chief scientific officer of a new University of...

7 days ago

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7 days ago

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SonoSite Marketing Boss Resigns to Take Job at Smith & Nephew
Sonosite, the Bothell, WA-based maker of portable ultrasound machines, said today that Thomas Dugan, its senior vice president...

7 days ago

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Spaltudaq Harnessing Mother Nature’s Wisdom to Make Better Drugs For Infections
Spaltudaq has never really said a whole lot publicly about what it’s doing. So I was eager to get an update this week...

8 days ago

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Salient Surgical Cuts $86M IPO
Salient Surgical Technologies (formerly TissueLink), of Dover, NH, filed papers with the SEC to withdraw its proposed $86.25...

9 days ago

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Biogen Idec Testing Regenerative Medicine Drug to Reverse the Path of Multiple Sclerosis
Biogen Idec has made a lot of its money on Avonex and Tysabri, drugs that slow down the rate of flare-ups for people with...

9 days ago

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UW TechTransfer’s Linden Rhoads Aiming to Nurture More Startups, Entice More VCs to Look at UW’s Research Cupboard
Linden Rhoads is fired up. The high-tech entrepreneur-turned-university official has been circulating around town since she...

9 days ago

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Proteostasis Therapeutics Procures $45M, Stealthy Startup Gets Serious About Shampoo, MA Life Sciences Center Chief Shares Her Plans, & More Life Sciences News
There were some exciting venture deals this past week, and some great in-depth reporting about Boston-area life sciences firms...

9 days ago

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Indevus Pharma Raises $105M in Debt Sale
Indevus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INDEV), a Lexington, MA, specialty pharmaceutical firm, announced it has raised $105 million in...

10 days ago

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Curis Begins Phase 1 Trial of Anti-Tumor Drug
Drug developer Curis (NASDAQ:CRIS), of Cambridge, MA, reported today that it has begun a Phase 1 clinical trial of an...

10 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Boston, Boston briefs, Curis, cancer

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Updated HomeJobUpdates blog: Editor - Higher Ed. Life Sciences http://tinyurl.com/6flqhp

10 days ago

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QLT Licenses Atrigel Rights to Reckitt Benckiser
QLT, (NASDAQ: QLTI) a Vancouver, BC-based biotechnology company, said today its U.S. subsidiary provided an exclusive license...

10 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Seattle, Seattle..., Biotech, Life Sciences

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Quanterix Collects $15 Million in Series A Venture Round
Quanterix, a privately held developer of medical diagnostics technology in Cambridge, MA, has raised $15 million in a Series A...

11 days ago

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Cell Therapeutics Authorizes 1-for-10 Reverse Stock Split
Cell Therapeutics said today its board has authorized a 1-for-10 reverse stock split, meaning that shareholders will get one...

11 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Seattle, Seattle..., Biotech, Life Sciences

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Genzyme, Medicines for Malaria Venture Form Partnership to Develop New Treatments
Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) and Medicines for Malaria Venture, a nonprofit organization, said today they have...

11 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Boston, Boston briefs, Biotech, Malaria

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Putting Electrons Behind Getting Things Built: Seattle Science Foundation Aims to Connect Scientists, Start Companies
Bob Franza has a way with words. I stopped by to visit the visionary biologist in his office at the Seattle Science Foundation...

14 days ago

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Q&A With Massachusetts’ Billion-Dollar Woman: Susan Windham-Bannister. Part 2.
Yesterday we ran the first half of an e-mail interview with Susan Windham-Bannister, the new president and CEO of the...

14 days ago

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OncoGenex Cuts Half of Workforce, Leaving 27 Employees
OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, (NASDAQ: OGXI) the developer of cancer drugs, said today it has cut half of its workforce as part of...

15 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Seattle, Seattle..., Biotech, Life Sciences

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Q&A With Massachusetts’ Billion-Dollar Woman: Susan Windham-Bannister. Part 1.
Susan Windham-Bannister is pretty long as names go, so the staff simply calls her Dr. Sue. The moniker is short but her task is...

15 days ago

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Sonus Shareholders Approve Merger With OncoGenex
Sonus Pharmaceuticals, (NASDAQ: SNUS) the Bothell, WA-based company that failed in an effort to develop a less toxic form of...

16 days ago

Xconomy - Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy | Topics: Seattle, Seattle..., Biotech, Mergers

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SAS® for Clinical Data Integration helps reduce time-to-market for new drugs
SAS® Clinical Data Integration Server will provide a new platform for life sciences organizations to define, manage, and...

73 days ago

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SAS unveils SAS® for Patient Safety at DIA 44th Annual Meeting
SAS for Patient Safety is a next-generation safety solution that will help life sciences research companies address new...

73 days ago

sas | Topics: Not..., Analytics, Data..., Life Sciences

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UCLA LifeSciences TechsAvail Spotlight just published... http://tinyurl.com/5fpts6

76 days ago

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Really Simple Sidi (RSS): Knowledge Enhancements in Life Sciences
from comments: "I especially wanted to mention that all finalists get the opportunity to work with a large collection of Elsevier's proprietary life science content, including the full text XML and PDF of our life science journals and our...

The Elsevier Life Science Challenge: Inventing the Future of Knowledge!'
"The Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used. The contest invites members of the scientific community to describe and prototype a...

93 days ago

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Research Jobs in Bioinformatics, University of Amsterdam
Netherlands. Three years postdoctoral positions within The Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS). The successful...

121 days ago

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Upcoming Event - Hershey Center for Applied Research Official Launch of KnowledgeMesh™
Wednesday, May 14th, 10am-noon at the Hershey Center for Applied Research, HCAR will launch its cutting-edge social...

122 days ago

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What types of resumes do you want posted here?
If you are a long time reader, you know that every blue moon I collect a sampling of free resumes for all to enjoy. This...

135 days ago

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Accounting Manager / Senior Manager Job Location : Bangna–Trad Rd. KM. 18Responsibilities :-Overall responsible for...

147 days ago

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