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Firm relies on innovation, UW discoveries to drive drug development

Madison 18 Nov 2018

The reinvention of a photographic film company has transformed a pioneering stem cell startup into a biotech leader with an eye toward regenerative medicine and drug discovery ... ....

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BioGenerator seeking up to $1.5 million in state tax credits for new lab space

St Louis Post-Dispatch 16 Nov 2018

The credits would be used to raise $3 million to help the biotech startup assistance organization add new labs in Cortex ... ....

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Watertown biotech plans first clinical trial of weeklong schizophrenia drug

Business Journal 15 Nov 2018

Watertown-based startup Lyndra Therapeutics is planning to launch its first clinical trial next year after early testing showed its science could turn a once-daily pill into a weekly treatment ... The three-year-old biotech startup originated out of MIT professor Bob Langer's lab and has received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ... ....

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From sweet corn to nano-cosmetics and nano-medicine

Asia Times 14 Nov 2018

A Canadian-based biotech startup company is thriving after using its “countrified” ......

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ClearLight Biotechnologies, LLC (ClearLight) Is Recognized as One of the "15 Most Promising BioTech Startups of 2018"

Market Watch 13 Nov 2018

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Roivant Sciences climbs to $7 billion valuation

San Francisco Chronicle 13 Nov 2018

In August 2017, the company raised $1.1 billion from the Vision Fund, which has made a series of splashy investments on internet firms and other startups but backed few other biotech ventures. Roivant is run by 33-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy, who began his career as a hedge fund analyst before founding the company ... ....

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Philly breathes a ‘collective sigh of relief’ as Amazon announces HQs in New York, Virginia

Philadelphia Daily News 13 Nov 2018

Related stories ... Plus the open jobs won’t be entry level ... Imagine if instead of chasing shiny objects we offered even a fraction of the support to keep Penn-generated biotech ideas in town instead of shipping them off to Cambridge, or to keep Wharton startups like Warby Parker around— Troy Mullane (@troym_philly) November 13, 2018 ... CONFIRMED ... ....

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Harvard Medical School gets record gift to speed research, biotech startups

The Daily Progress 11 Nov 2018

At a gala two years ago, George Daley, who'd recently been named dean of Harvard Medical School, sat next to Len Blavatnik ... ....

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A biotech unicorn valued at more than $7 billion just took a big step towards going public

Business Insider 09 Nov 2018

Moderna Cambridge-based biotech company Moderna ... Moderna is likely to have the biggest-ever IPO in the biotech industry ... Moderna became biotech’s most valuable private startup on the promise of crafting therapies that could transform patients’ cells into microscopic drug factories....

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Two IU researchers win $2.3M grant to study neuropathy in cancer patients

Indianapolis Business Journal 09 Nov 2018

Jill Fehrenbacher and Mark Kelley were awarded a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute, the medical school said this week ... APX3330 is in clinical trials for anti-tumor and anti-neuropathy studies by Apexian Pharmaceuticals, an Indianapolis biotech startup ... ADVERTISEMENT. ....

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UCity’s new labs open for business

Philadelphia Daily News 08 Nov 2018

... faculty startups in April by Penn's Board of Trustees ... in the University City Science Center labs is Sarah Morin, General Manager, CIC Philadelphia and Head of North American Centers for CIC, the Massachusetts firm that is leasing labs and offices to dozens of biotech startups....

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The startup behind the first lab-grown pork links let us see how their sausage gets made — and said it slashed the cost by 12x in a month

Business Insider 07 Nov 2018

New Age Meats' Andra Necula (L) and sausage chef Matt Murphy prepare the startup's first public tasting of lab-grown sausage ... Biology clean meat cell-based meat lab-grown meat Meat Sausage Pork New Age Meats IndieBio Biotech Stem Cells Health Startups Silicon Valley Memphis Meats....

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Watch biotech startups pitch at IndieBio’s demo day today

Crunch 06 Nov 2018

IndieBio, the biotech startup accelerator that’s produced heaps of notable companies (including several that have graced the Startup Battlefield), is holding its twice-annual demo day today at 3PM Pacific Time ... We’ll be watching too! ... Bioreactors are used in practically every branch of biotech, whether for testing or drug manufacturing ... ....