Jnana Therapeutics launched with a $50 million Series A financing. Seed funders Polaris Partners and Avalon Ventures were joined in the round by Versant Ventures, AbbVie Ventures and Pfizer R&D Innovate.
The Boston Business Journal first reported that Ensemble Therapeutics has shut its doors for good. Focused on developing small molecule therapies for cancer and other disease, Ensemble Therapeutics quietly closed up shop after 13 years.
Billionaire Mark Cuban invested $250,000 into a small South San Francisco-based biotech company, Perlara, as part of its $7.4 million equity round.
NeuroPace Inc. raised $74 million in equity funding as the medical device maker looks to rapidly expand commercialization of its device to treat epileptic seizures.
Israeli medical device company Magenta Medical said it has raised $15 million in funding led by Massachusetts-based Abiomed Inc., a maker of catheter-based heart pumps, and venture capital firm Pitango.
Google is betting on the potential of European biotech companies to deliver life-changing drugs by investing alongside Swiss company Novartis in a new $300 million fund run by leading life sciences investment firm Medicxi.
President Donald Trump signed a resolution that will allow U.S. states to restrict how federal funds for contraception and reproductive health are spent.
AstraZeneca has signed a wide-ranging deal with private biotech firm Bicycle Therapeutics to develop a novel class of small molecule medicines.
India will fully fund its AIDS control program federally, the health minister said on Tuesday, restoring support months after it was criticized for slashing its contribution and asking individual states […]
(Reuters Health) – U.S. public health funding – which covers things like disease prevention, cancer screenings, contraceptives and vaccines – has been steadily falling in recent years and is expected […]