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Longitude Capital closes second life sciences fund with $385M

Friday, October 12, 2012 12:13 PM

Longitude Capital has closed the Longitude Venture Partners II, a $385 million venture capital fund dedicated to investments in drug development and medical technology. 

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Sanofi, Mass. General Hospital launch oncology research collaboration

Thursday, October 11, 2012 07:00 AM

Global healthcare company Sanofi has formed a two-year agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) aimed at furthering translational medicine research to develop new treatments for various types of hematological malignancies and solid tumors.

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BioSeek awarded new 5-year contract from EPA ToxCast program

Friday, October 5, 2012 08:00 AM

BioSeek, a drug discovery services company based in San Francisco, has been awarded a significant new contract extending and expanding the company's collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the EPA ToxCast screening program. 

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PTC Therapeutics appoints Zeldis to board of directors

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:14 PM

PTC Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company based in South Plainfield, N.J., has appointed Jerome B. Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D., to the company's board of directors.

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Epizyme earns $4M in milestones from GSK for novel HMT therapeutics

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:52 AM

Epizyme, a pharmaceutical company focused personalized therapeutics for cancer, received a $4 million milestone payments from collaborator GlaxoSmithKline based on the achievement of pre-clinical milestones.

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VentiRx, Celgene collaborate on novel TLR8 agonist VTX-2337 for cancer

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:03 AM

VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on novel Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonists and antagonists, has formed an exclusive, world-wide collaboration with Celgene, an integrated global biopharmaceutical company, for the development of VTX-2337, a highly potent and selective TLR8 agonist for the treatment of cancer.

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Sanofi to acquire Genfar

Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:04 AM

Global healthcare company Sanofi has signed an agreement to acquire Genfar, a pharmaceuticals manufacturer headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. With this acquisition, Sanofi will expand its portfolio of affordable pharmaceuticals in Latin America.

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The CenterWatch Monthly, October 2012

Monday, October 1, 2012 01:22 PM

CRCs workload up: relative pay declining

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Knome introduces knoSYS100, first plug-and-play human genome interpretation system

Friday, September 28, 2012 12:10 PM

Knome, a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of human genome interpretation systems and services, has launched its knoSYS100, the first plug-and-play, fully integrated hardware and software system designed to help researchers in medical and academic institutions interpret human whole genomes.

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GenVec cuts workforce by 30%

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 01:52 PM

GenVec, a biopharmaceutical company based in Gaithersburg, Md., is lowering its operating costs to conserve capital including eliminating 23 positions, or approximately 30% of its workforce.

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