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UK biotech funding falls 40% between 2018 and 2019
Out of that amount, £679m was raised in venture capital, £64m was raised in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and £596m in all other public financings. ... According to the report, global venture capital deals totalled £14.5bn in 2019, down 12%, with
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Merck acquires pre-clinical biotech Calporta for up to $576m
Calporta was one of eight San Diego-based biotechs created as part of a deal between venture capital firm Avalon Ventures and pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline. ... COI Pharmaceuticals is the venture-pharma entity established by Avalon to support its
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Amgen exits neuroscience R&D to focus on growth areas
example through its collaboration with deCode Genetics, and will be “exploring potentially different models for doing that with venture capital and perhaps academic institutions as well”.
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Biogen’s R&D chief Ehlers heads for the exit
Along with his CEO role at Limelight, Ehlers is also taking on a CSO position at venture capital firm Apple Tree.
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Johnson pledges £200m cash injection into UK’s life sciences sector
The investment aims to help companies within the sector to raise capital – to run clinical trials, employ more industrial scientists and develop manufacturing capabilities. ... He added “this is particularly important in the coming weeks as UK-based
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Mega-mergers dominate as buoyant markets lift biopharma
Venture capital is also fuelling biotech funding, with $3bn raised in Q2.
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Can protein degraders unlock ‘undruggable’ drug targets?
It raised $30m in its series A in 2017, and followed that up with a second-round fundraising last November that raised $67m and added Pfizer and Sanofi’s venture capital
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BRIC markets
The country is attracting increasing amounts of venture capital funding and we are going see some novel medicines developed in those labs being sold in international markets,” he concluded.
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Driving the innovation engine
Rapid changes in technology and the increasing availability of venture capital and angel investors now mean that if an employee has a good idea, he or she can rapidly capitalise on ... The boundary is that it’s limited to the stakeholders – including,
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Building European biotech firms to rival those of the US
Richard Mason (pictured above) is a veteran of the UK biotech industry, including a spell as CEO of company XO1 set up by venture capital investors Index Ventures (now Medicxi) in ... Europe will produce its own world class biotechs. Many people in life
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European biotech: a new generation of leaders emerges
biotechs’. The growing role of specialist venture capital. One of the key ingredients in these and other recent European biotech success stories is long-term backing from investors. ... One key venture capital fund is London-based Medicxi, which raised
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AstraZeneca taps internal candidate to become UK president
Prior to joining AZ, Keith-Roach worked in technology venture capital and strategy consulting for a period of ten years.
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Recruiters PIR International appoint four new executives
He has a track record of delivering global retained search assignments at executive and board level, partnering with venture capital and private equity funded growth stage businesses to drive patient centric
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Immunocore names new CEO, Nanoform adds to commercial team and Verona hires CMO
He has held roles for Hovione Capital, a life science focused venture capital company, and has served on several life science company boards.
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Marinomed appoints CFO, Robin Brown is named chair of Medicines Discovery Catapult and more
Brown succeeds Graham Boulnois, the group’s founding chairman, and brings experience of academic research, biotech, big pharma and US venture capital to the role. ... capital and financial markets. “His deep industry expertise, experience in oncology
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Prevail Therapeutics adds to its board of directors
Before his time at NPS, Nader was a venture partner at Care Capital and he also previously served on the North America leadership team of Aventis and its predecessor companies, holding
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Random42 Attending Jefferies 2018 London Healthcare Conference
This global gathering of leading healthcare executives and institutional, private equity and venture capital investors will address near- and long-term investment opportunities and discuss the mechanisms driving global healthcare.
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Random42 appoints Bill Collis as Chairman
He has vast experience in venture capital and private equity funding, intellectual property licensing, mergers and acquisitions and accessing international markets.
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Managing value: Why early asset development and commercialization is important
Investors understand that it’s a gamble, but like every gambler they want the best odds. The figures really are staggering: there are companies with assets in development that have capital ... But while venture capital investors are pumping many
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Big Bear Communications
We are a Strategic Marketing Consultancy to the pharmaceuticals / biotech sector and our clients include companies from the sector as well as those from the Venture Capital / Private Equity sector.
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BigBear Communications Ltd
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