
Industry News
- Biogen shareholders: CEO pay 'inconsistent' with poor stock performance
- Corindus raises $4.7M in equity funds
- CambridgeSoft's private financing worth $31M
- Second license deal with Amgen to bring ImmunoGen another $35M
- Boston Heart Lab pumped with new funds, jobs, office space
- Medical device firms show cautiously optimistic outlook
- German biotech Caprotec opens Burlington subsidiary
- Genzyme halts kidney treatment development
- ACT seeks FDA OK for stem cell study to treat blindness
- Biotech startup Ligon Discovery attracts $1M in VC funds
- Athena Diagnostics slaps IP suit on Calif. genetics firm
- Pressure BioSciences closes $1.2M tranche
- Clinical Data’s cardiac stress test hits Phase 3 trials
- Knome targets researchers with new genomic service
- Clinical Data names scientific board
- Advanced BioHealing begins skin substitute trial
- Alkermes moves alcohol dependency drug candidate to Phase 2 study
- UNH professors win $1.4M in NSF grants
- Life sciences software maker CambridgeSoft takes in more funds
- FDA rejects Genzyme’s Pompe disease drug again
- ACT closes $15M private placement
- Humedica forms scientific advisory board
- Alkermes to push opioid dependence treatment for FDA approval
- Putney pulls in $6.7M, plans growth
- Five Genzyme drugs contaminated; stock plummets
- Echo Therapeutics gets $3M from private placement
- Thermo Fisher refinances debt
- Biotech, pharma foresee higher costs from House health reform bill
- Cequent files first IND application
- Novelos closes $9M private placement
- Cambridge Heart partners with Cardiac Science
- Altus files for Ch. 7 bankruptcy
- Generex Biotechnology granted extension for Nasdaq compliance
- Metabolix makes $27M public offering
- Aponos wins WPI Venture Forum Business Plan Contest
- Vertex exchanges notes for company stock
- Helicos ends acquisition talks
- Inverness ends Thermo distribution deal
- BioTrove poised for acquisition, new spin-out
- Ironwood to net $75M from licensing deal in Japan
- Pfizer R&D vet LaMattina joins PureTech Ventures
- BioVex boosts Series F to $70M to move cancer treatment forward
- Concert Pharmaceuticals to land $12M from HIV drug's clinical study
- GTC Biotherapeutics execs land retention pay amid layoffs
- Covidien nearly completes Aspect acquisition
- Caliper to ID toxic chemicals with $1.8M EPA contract
- Microfluidics dealt $1M credit line
- Boston Scientific pays $296M to settle Guidant allegations
- Gloucester Pharmaceuticals’ lymphoma drug wins FDA OK
- Beerman takes CEO post at RXi Pharmaceuticals
- Facet Solutions acquires Archus Orthopedics
- N.E. researchers share grants for infectious diseases
- PerkinElmer newborn screening platform gets FDA clearance
- Shire's Gaucher drug gets FDA priority review
- Health IT firm Quantros opens Marlborough office, plans new hires
- Medical device firm Facet Solutions pulls in $3.6M
- Pro-Pharmaceuticals grabs another piece of $6M funding round
- Synta sees profit gain on broken GSK deal
- Job cuts help CombinatoRx narrow Q3 loss
- Werner Schaefer joins Neuroptix board
- Alnara appoints chief medical officer Brettman
- SV Life Sciences appoints new partners Ryan and Wachtman
- J&J to cut 7,000; Mass. impact unclear
- Genzyme manufacturing plant gets EU OK
- Personalized cancer therapy firm On-Q-ity lands $21M
- Boston Scientific stent gets European approval
- Insulet aims for $61.5M public stock offering
- Seaside launches trial for autism treatment
- RNAi startup Cequent raises $3.4M
- GTC Biotherapeutics pulls in $10M from shareholder
- Pulmatrix lands $32M in multiple fundings
- Foley & Lardner wins $208M NIH IP contract
- Lab equipment maker Bruker sees spike in shares
- Javelin Pharma attracts $3.9M stock offer
- PerkinElmer Q3 earnings show promising outlook
- Third Rock rests VC hopes in rare genetic disease treatments
- Celldex cancer drug candidate returns positive news
- CorNova lands $2.5M in financing
- Framingham wastewater collection nets $7.7M from MLSC
- Virdante Pharmaceuticals boosts first round to $47M
- Stryker Biotech indicted in deceit scheme
- Interlace device lands FDA clearance
- MIT grant applies physics to cancer research
- Excelimmune wins SBIR grant
- Vertex Pharma sees wider Q3 loss
- Environmental lab Alpha Analytical buys Boston Analytical
- Aiko opioid painkiller returns positive trial results
- Inverness sees Q3 revenue uptick
- Helicos considers ‘strategic alternatives’
- Thermo Fisher launches heart attack biomarker in Europe
- Positive results for Antigenics' brain cancer therapy
- American Well pulls in $10M for online doctor visits
- Cephalon pays $30M for option to buy BioAssets
- Biogen shares tumble on more MS drug-linked infections
- Molecular Insight signs global cancer therapy deal
- Biocell Center opens amniotic stem cell bank in Medford
- Nuclea wraps up $3.4 million funding
- Synta's failed drug target may be reborn from biomarker discovery
- Lawrence General Hospital: A beacon of e-health success
- Allegro Diagnostics lands $2.8M SBIR grant for lung cancer diagnostics
- Thermo Fisher Q3 revenue falls, net income up on cost cuts
- GE launches $250M healthcare IT fund
- Genzyme Q3 net income plummets amid plant shutdown woes
- Genzyme moves oral Gaucher disease drug to Phase 3 trials
- Sepracor buyout completed; CEO Adams to receive up to $11M
- Cambridge Consultants touts innovation, launches e-health device
- Seventh Sense Biosystems' malaria monitoring project wins Gates Foundation grant
- Biogen Q3 net income, revenue increase
- UMass Medical School taps Ware for better patient data tools
- Boston Scientific stock falls after lower guidance
- Aileron Therapeutics appoints Kafka as CFO
- Synageva closes newly increased $45M investment
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