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Life Sciences venture capital investing falls in first quarter

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:21 PM

Venture capitalists invested $5.8 billion in 758 deals in the first quarter of 2012, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly venture capital (VC) investment activity fell 19% in terms of dollars and 15% in the number of deals compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, when $7.1 billion was invested in 889 deals.

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Survey: relationship between FDA and life sciences industry deteriorating, delays in review process cited

Monday, December 13, 2010 07:00 AM

Top biopharmaceutical company executives are frustrated with delays and inconsistencies in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory review process and are concerned that passage of the healthcare reform law, which gave the already resource-constrained agency more responsibilities, will further complicate drug approvals, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey.

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Newer sites most optimistic about the future
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Risk-based monitoring slow to catch on with industry
It's estimated that the cost of physically sending monitors to all investigative sites at regular intervals, a model the industry itself developed and has adhered to for about a decade, eats up one-third to one-half of…

Eye On Millennium
Millennium, The Takeda Oncology Company, discovers and develops novel treatments applying world-class recombinant technology to a wide variety of oncology disease targets…

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