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Flagship biotech startup leases space from struggling Catabasis

Business Journal 17 Oct 2018

A Catabasis spokesperson said the company ended its laboratory work earlier this year as it focuses on a single drug ... ....

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Stanford graduates discuss experience growing biotech startup

The Stanford Daily 15 Oct 2018

Imagine making disease detection as simple as taking pictures on your phone. Budding biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences, launched in May 2018 by Trevor Martin Ph.D. ’16, and Ashley Tehranchi Ph.D. ’16, aims to develop accurate, affordable and consumer-friendly platforms for disease detection using CRISPR technology ... ....

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China’s Innovent Biologics Aims to Raise $420M in Hong Kong

Caixin Online 15 Oct 2018

intends to raise as much as HK$3.3 billion ($420 million) in an initial public offering in Hong Kong, joining a parade of pre-profit biotech startups tapping the market ... Innovent is expected to be the fourth pre-profit biotech startup to list in Hong Kong after the financial hub revised its regime in April to allow early-stage biotech companies....

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Boston's SQZ signs cancer drug pact with Roche worth up to $1B

Business Journal 15 Oct 2018

Pharmaceutical giant Roche is re-upping its partnership with Boston startup SQZ Biotech, signing a collaboration deal on its lead cancer program that could be worth upwards of $1 billion ... The private biotech first signed a partnership deal with… ... ....

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Here are the apps you use every day that are backed by Saudi money

Quartz 14 Oct 2018

Beyond its strong ties to the United States government, Saudi Arabia’s oil riches have allowed the country to invest in Japanese conglomerate SoftBank’s Vision Fund, which has recently created a revolution in Silicon Valley startup funding ... Popular apps. Uber. ride-sharing. Doordash ... Wag ... biotech startup targeting infectious diseases ... oncology startup Other ... vertical farm startup ... Indian hotel-booking startup ... construction startup....

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Rural Hendry County mixes economic woes, hope for new jobs

Waco Tribune-Herald 13 Oct 2018

CLEWISTON, Fla. (AP) — The economic statistics from this corner of rural Florida are nothing short of dreadful. Hendry County has the state's worst unemployment rate by a wide margin. Job growth is anemic. Property values are languishing. Bank deposits are dwindling. And yet Clewiston hardly looks like a ghost town ... 27 ... Critics of Gov ... The county of 40,000 has no university, no biotech labs, no venture-funded startups ... Or as, Gardner puts it....

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Sloan Kettering Cancer Researchers Correct the Record by Revealing Company Ties

ProPublica 12 Oct 2018

The list of companies that pay him range from major manufacturers like Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, for whom he works as a paid for consultant, to startups like BeiGene, Apricity and Adaptive Biotech, in which he reports owning stock options ... Most of his relationships are with early-stage startups....

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Heartland Tech Weekly: Tacking stock of the Southeast’s startup scene

Venture Beat 11 Oct 2018

Last week, I came across an interesting report on a region I don’t cover too much (the Southeastern United States) that looked at more than just how much startups in each state was raising ... Take North Carolina, for example — the state has traditionally been a powerhouse for biotech startups (biotech and pharma startups have raise almost $2 billion since 2013) ... Year after year, startups in U.S....

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Valley entrepreneur ousted from one biotech startup launches another

Business Journal 10 Oct 2018

This entrepreneur didn't let a little ousting keep him from starting another company ... ....

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Report: Corporate Venture Capital is Catalyzing Groundbreaking Biomedical Innovation in the United States

Market Watch 10 Oct 2018

10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Venture capital is increasingly becoming the growing force for financing biotech and other startups, fueling medical advances in the United States ... These biopharma CVC funds not only provide direct investments to promising startups but also ......

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When scientific innovation merges with humanity, it can solve any problem: Anand Anandkumar

Your Story 09 Oct 2018

Anand Anandkumar, the co-Founder of biotech startup Bugworks Research, is a passionate scientist as well as a humanitarian at heart ... semiconductor industry before pivoting to biotech in 2008, today runs three startups focused on biotechnology, one of which is drug discovery startup Bugworks ... An enabling "deep science startup" ecosystem....

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Startup to manufacture pharmaceuticals in ABQ

Aluquerque Journal 09 Oct 2018

A Richmond, Va.-based biotech startup has announced it is launching a manufacturing operation in Albuquerque and will hire about 10 people locally. Bright Path Pharmaceuticals LLC uses “continuous flow bioreactor technology” to produce drug compounds in a cost-effective manner. The technology can be used to create drugs for so-called orphan diseases. conditions that affect fewer […] ... ....

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Minnesota's million-dollar funding deals of Q3 (slideshow)

Business Journal 09 Oct 2018

It was a busy summer for big funding rounds, with nearly a dozen Minnesota companies nabbing financing deals worth at least $10 million. Many of the largest deals went to health care companies, including medical-device makers, biotech firms and digital health startups. Agriculture-technology companies made a strong showing, too. Overall there were nearly 30 businesses that raised at least $1 million ... ....

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