Amarantus Bio Raises $5M
Amarantus BioScience Holdings today said that it closed on a $5 million investment from privately held mutual fund Discover Growth Fund. Amarantus plans to use the financing to further develop and com [...]
Nerd Stalker gets the QB3 pitch
Greg Viloria of the Silicon Valley blog Nerd Stalker interviewed Kaspar Mossman, QB3 communications and marketing director, recently at QB3@953. Greg generously allowed Kaspar to explain the entire s [...]
Ethan Perlstein featured in Science Careers
Ethan Perlstein never planned to be a CEO. Ever since his college research internship in a lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he had dreamed of becoming a professor at a high-powered rese [...]
Privail Wins the Vator Splash Health 2015 People’s Choice Award
At Vator Splash Health, Privail won the People's Choice Award. Here's the video of Anwaar Al-Zireeni, Privail co-founder and CEO, giving on of the winning presentation. Privail is developing point-of- [...]
Encoded Genomics, Xcell Bio among those to benefit from Illumina Accelerator’s $40M
Illumina today announced that its startup accelerator has secured $40 million from Viking Global Investors to fund promising genomic firms. Accelerator graduates that raise between $1 million and $5 m [...]
Amarantus Inks Alzheimer’s Biomarker Test Deal with Anavex
Amarantus BioScience Holdings today said that it has signed a deal to provide biomarker test services to Anavex Life Sciences for studies of that firm's Alzheimer's drug candidate. Under the deal, Ama [...]
MedGenome keen to team-up with state govts
MedGenome is looking to partner with the state governments in the country to offer its OncoMD, a cancer analytics platform with information on over 1.2 million cancer mutations allowing accurate inter [...]
Innovation in fixed-dose combos: HIV/AIDS therapeutics edition
The FDA has published guidance to support the submission process for companies developing fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) for the treatment of HIV patients. According to this guidance, “FDCs are essent [...]
It’s free! QB3 inks equipment donation deal for biomed startups
One of the lures of the University of California's QB3 incubator network for life sciences startups is access to the same core facilities — centralized sites with million-dollar pieces of equipment — [...]