Established Maryland bioscience companies foresee a fairly promising investment atmosphere, as they made their pitches to venture capitalists attending the Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference on Friday.
More than 750 participants, including more than 300 bioscience companies, atten...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals Enters into Licensing and Purchase Option Agreements with Alcon
October 22, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today that it has entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon Research, Ltd.,...
FASgen Receives New $1.4 Million NIH Grant for Obesity Research
October 1, 2009
BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FASgen, Inc. is pleased to announce that it was awarded a new $1.4 million SBIR Phase II NIH grant for continued research for obesity. FASgen has for some time had extensive research into the effects of inhibition of the fatty acid biosynthesis pathway on the regulation o...
MediQuest Therapeutics Takes Streamlined Route To VC Liquidity
August 20, 2009
MediQuest Therapeutics Inc. is taking what it hopes will be a streamlined approach to providing liquidity for its venture backers: licensing out its portfolio of drug candidates and distributing the proceeds.Phased exit strategies such as this one are growing more common as venture firms search for ...
Cytox Raises Pre-Series A Financing From Existing UK Investors, Welcomes First US Investor
June 23, 2009
LONDON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Cytox Limited, a UK-based neuroscience company that provides blood biomarker services to the pharmaceutical industry for Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials, has announced completion of a pre-Series A funding round of GBP 600,000 (US$ 1 million).
Proceeds wil...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals Successfully Completes Phase I Clinical Trial
May 3, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today that it successfully completed its Phase I ASaP (Assessment of Safety of Intravitreal POT-4 Therap...
Cytox Bolsters Support Through Stake By Masa Life Science Ventures
April 5, 2009
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Birmingham, U.K. -- Alzheimer's disease diagnostic developer Cytox Ltd.
has raised an undisclosed amount of funding through Masa Life Science Ventures in an ongoing fund-raising, VentureWire has l...
Medtronic and Envisionier Medical Technologies announce a distribution agreement
February 5, 2009
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) and Envisionier Medical Technologies, Inc., a privately held company, today announced an agreement that grants exclusive rights for US distribution and marketing of the endogo® system to the ENT (ear, nose, and throat) division of Medtronic.
Envisionier is the develop...
The MaxCyte STX Scalable Transfection Presented at LabAutomation 2009
January 25, 2009
MaxCyte, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high performance cell loading systems, announces the presentation of the MaxCyte® STX™ Scalable Transfection System at LabAutomation2009 in the Rapid Fire Innovation Session in Palm Springs, CA. “The selection of the MaxCyte STX ...
FASgen, Inc. Announces Research and License Agreement With Centocor, Inc. (JNJ)
January 5, 2009
BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- FASgen, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a research and license agreement with Centocor, Inc. This agreement will give Centocor, Inc. and its Ortho Biotech Oncology Research and Development division affiliates the opportunity to discover and deve...
MaxCyte Hosts LIVE Discussion with Industry Experts on the Challenges in Developing Cell-Based Screening Assays for Drug Discovery
November 11, 2008
MaxCyte Hosts LIVE Discussion with Industry Experts on the Challenges in Developing Cell-Based Screening Assays for Drug Discovery
For more details please follow this link:
http://www.maxcyte.com/pdf/maxcyte_pr_111208.pdf...
JADO Technologies GmbH, a Dresden, Germany-based developer of RAFT intervention therapeutics, has raised €3.9 million in Series B funding. Peppermint Financial Partners led the round, and was joined by NRW.Bank and return backers Dresden Fonds GmbH, EMBL Ventures, KfW (ERP-Startfonds), Max Pla...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals Appoint Johanna M. Seddon, M.D. and Janet Stoltz Sunness, M.D. to Scientific Advisory Board
November 10, 2008
LOUISVILLE, KY – November 11, 2008 – Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today the appointments of Johanna M. Seddon, M.D. and Janet Stoltz Sunness, M.D. to its Scient...
The MaxCyte STX Scalable Transfection System to be Launched at the SBS Symposium on Cell-Based Assays
October 9, 2008
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http://www.maxcyte.com/pdf/The_MaxCyte_STX_Scalable_Transfection_System_to_be_Launched_at_the_SBS_Symposium_on_Cell-Based_Assays.pdf...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Safety Data
September 28, 2008
September 29, 2008—Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) announced today that the Company's leading drug candidate, POT-4, has shown early positive safety results in its Phase I study. P...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, together with academic collaborators, received a Phase II STTR grant from the National Eye Institute to push forward their development of a new, less invasive delivery technology for ocular therapeutics. This grant, involving a collaboration with the Lions Eye Center of the...
JADO INITIATES PHASE II TRIALS OF LEAD RAFT MODULATOR IN URTICARIA
July 1, 2008
JADO Technologies GmbH, the leading developer of RAFT intervention therapeutics, announced today the start of a Phase II study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of oral TF002, a formulation of miltefosine, in patients with antihistamine resistant urticaria. TF002 exerts anti-inflammatory activity ...
Correlogic is granted U.S. Patent Number 7,395,160 for "Quality Assurance — Quality Control for Electrospray Ionization Processes".
The patent covers important quality control methods to help ensure the validity of test results when blood serum is analyzed on a mass spectrometer. It compleme...
Correlogic is granted U.S. Patent Number 7,395,160 for "Quality Assurance — Quality Control for Electrospray Ionization Processes".
The patent covers important quality control methods to help ensure the validity of test results when blood serum is analyzed on a mass spectrometer. It compleme...
JADO REPORTS CLINICAL PROOF OF CONCEPT WITH RAFT MODULATOR IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS
June 1, 2008
JADO Technologies GmbH, the leading developer of RAFT intervention therapeutics, announced today positive results from a Phase IIa clinical trial of its lead RAFT modulator TF002 in patients with severe atopic dermatitis. TF002, a topical formulation of miltefosine, exerts its anti-inflammatory acti...
BALTIMORE, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- FASgen Diagnostics, LLC (Baltimore) and Tetracore, Inc. (Rockville) have announced that they have entered into a collaboration to produce cGMP ELISA and IHC tests for cancer biomarkers using FASgen's proprietary antibodies. The tests measure the over-expression of t...
Vancouver, BC, Canada –March 6, 2008 – enGene Inc. announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 7,335,646, which grants enGene claim to a method to induce endocrine cells located in the gastrointestinal tract to synthesize and secrete different therape...
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn looks at a condition which afflicts 3-to-5% of Americans, and 90% of those affected are women. Fred Dechow, of Mediquest, explains Raynaud's, and that if you have it, you know how painful it can be.
Please use the following link to hear the interviewhttp...
CIMA NANOTECH SELECTED AS A 2008 TECHNOLOGY PIONEER
November 28, 2007
(BY THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM)
St. Paul, Minn., November 29, 2007 - The World Economic Forum today named 39 visionary companies as Technology Pioneers 2008. Cima NanoTech, Inc., based in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been selected as one of these Technology Pioneers for advancing the field of nanoma...
BINEX AND MAXCYTE COLLABORATE ON CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY RESEARCH
November 27, 2007
Busan, Korea and Gaithersburg, MD - November 28, 2007 - Binex (KOSDAQ:053030) and MaxCyte, Inc. announced today the signing of a Sponsored Research Agreement to evaluate MaxCyte's GMP-compliant cell loading technology for use in closed-system manufacturing of Binex's cell-based cancer immu...
Bothell-based MediQuest Therapeutics said Thursday a late-stage clinical trial of its topical treatment for Raynaud's disease showed encouraging results.
The treatment showed "significant improvement" in patients' symptoms of severe pain in their extremities.
The results put the company "one step ...
By john Created Nov 8 2007 - 3:37pmMediQuest's 13-year journey to commercialization
It's been a long, winding road for MediQuest Therapeutics, but the tiny Bothell, WA-based biotech has just taken a big step toward commercializing its first product.
Founded in 1994, MediQuest had to refocus four ...
MediQuest Therapeutics Inc. has received a European patent for a nontoxic treatment that can lighten skin. The Bothell company, which is developing topical treatments for inflammatory and infectious diseases, said its technology regulates an enzyme that produces skin pigment. While some people aroun...
Bothell-based MediQuest Therapeutics said Monday that it has obtained a European patent for a technology that can be used to lighten skin.
The technology inhibits the production of melanin and could be used to treat age spots and other skin ailments, the company said in a statement.
MediQuest, a...
JADO TECHNOLOGIES LICENSES CLINICAL DATA FROM AETERNA ZENTARIS FOR USE OF MILTEFOSINE IN ALLERGY INDICATIONS
October 29, 2007
JADO Technologies, the leading developer of RAFT intervention therapeutics, announced today the licensing of exclusive access to preclinical and clinical data on miltefosine from AEterna Zentaris Inc. (TSX: AEZ; Nasdaq: AEZS) for development of the compound in allergy indications. Access to this dat...
Bothell-based MediQuest Therapeutics Inc. said Monday that it had won a European patent for technology that can help lighten skin.
The patented technology can regulate the amount of melanin that is produced. Melanin is the pigment produced in skin, hair and eyes.
The company says the technology wo...
Company developing non-toxic skin lightening therapy
BOTHELL, WA - Oct. 29 - MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing topical therapies for inflammatory and infectious diseases, today announced it was awarded a European patent for technology that c...
By ANDREA JAMESP-I REPORTER
If fortune -- cleverly disguised as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- smiles upon MediQuest Therapeutics Inc., 2008 could be the year that the small Bothell-based specialty biotech markets its first product.
After 13 years of tinkering with drug formulas, MediQue...
JADO TECHNOLOGIES APPOINTS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
September 3, 2007
JADO Technologies, the leading developer of novel cell membrane-targeted drugs, today announced the appointment of Charl van Zyl as its new Chief Executive Officer. Charl van Zyl will take over from Dr. Gary Jennings, cofounder and former CEO/CSO, who will continue as Chief Scientific Officer.
Cha...
MEDINET LICENSES MAXCYTE CELL LOADING TECHNOLOGY FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY IN JAPAN
August 26, 2007
Gaithersburg, MD, USA and Yokohama, Japan - August 27, 2007 - MaxCyte, Inc. and Medinet Co., Ltd. (TSE: #2370) announced today the signing of an exclusive license, development and supply agreement to use MaxCyte's proprietary cell loading system to support clinical studies and commercializ...
MediQuest Hires Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran as Senior VP of Sales
July 1, 2007
Media Contacts:Emily Zshornack-Topacio, MediQuestPhone: 425-398-9580; E-mail: emily@mqti.com
Robert Gara, APCO WorldwidePhone: 206-239-0111; E-mail: rgara@apcoworldwide.com
BOTHELL, WA - July 2 - MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for i...
MediQuest Concludes Confirmatory Phase III Study of Raynaud's Therapy
June 24, 2007
BOTHELL, WA - June 25 - MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for inflammatory and infectious diseases, today announced the completion of its confirmatory phase III study of Vascana - a topical formulation designed to treat Ra...
MaxCyte and Medinet to present at the 13th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) in Sydney, Australia
June 21, 2007
"Electroloading of mature dendritic cells with tumor lysate triggers robust antigen-specific CTL response"
Gaithersburg, MD, and Yokohama, Japan - June 22, 2007 - MaxCyte, Inc. and Medinet Co., Ltd. (TSE: #2370) announce a joint poster presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Internation...
By Brian Gormley
Venture capitalists are bankrolling drug makers taking aim at a blinding disease that is incurable today.
Nearly two million U.S. citizens suffer vision loss because of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, according to the National Eye Institute, and millions more are believ...
MaxCyte Announces Appointment Of Douglas A. Doerfler To Biotechnology Industry Organization's Board Of Directors
May 13, 2007
Gaithersburg, MD, May 14, 2007 - MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical-stage cell therapeutics company with a growing pipeline of proprietary and partnered drug candidates, today announced that Douglas A. Doerfler, the Company's president, chief executive officer and director, has been elected to the Board...
Envisionier signs a distribution agreement with ATOS Medical BV for distribution of the endogo® in the Netherlands
April 16, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1-FEB-2007 Rockville, Maryland
Envisionier medical technologies today announced an agreement to market and distribute the endogo® endoscopic imaging system in the Netherlands with Atos Medical BV. This agreement marks the first entry of the endogo® in the ...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of Phase I Clinical Trials to Evaluate its Lead Compound for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
April 5, 2007
POT-4 is the first complement inhibitor for age-related macular degeneration to enter clinical phase of development LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it is entering the clinical phase of development for POT-4, its lead drug candidate f...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals announces initiation of Phase I clinical trials to evaluate its lead compound for age-related macular degeneration
March 19, 2007
March 20, 2007 - Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it is entering the clinical phase of development for POT-4, its lead drug candidate for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). POT-4 is a complement inhibitor, which shuts down the complement activation system tha...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Raises $5 Million from Private Investors
March 6, 2007
LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it closed a $5 million round of financing. The funds will be used in part to support the pre-clinical and clinical development of Potentia's main drug candidate, POT-4. POT-4 is a derivative of Compstatin, a...
MediQuest Hires Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran as VP, Clinical Development
February 4, 2007
BOTHELL, WA - Feb. 5 - MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for inflammatory/infectious diseases that recently completed Phase IIIa clinical trials for a therapy designed to treat Raynaud's Disease, is pleased to announce that Eri...
"Delivering on the Promise of Cellular Therapies"
Gaithersburg, MD, January 17, 2007 - MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical stage therapeutic company and pioneer in clinical scale, non-viral cell loading systems, announces that it is hosting a symposium on "Delivering on the Promise of Cellular Therapies...
MaxCyte is a Featured Speaker at 2nd International Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine 2007
January 15, 2007
"Engineering Cells for Clinical Regenerative Applications: A Practical Approach"
Gaithersburg, MD, January 16, 2007 - MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical stage therapeutic company and pioneer in non-viral cell loading systems, announces Joseph Fratantoni, M.D. will be a featured speaker at the 2nd Inter...
MaxCyte is Featured Speaker at the Phacilitate Cell and Gene Therapy Forum 2007
January 15, 2007
"Optimizing Production of Engineered Cell Therapies"
Gaithersburg, MD, January 16, 2007 - MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical stage therapeutic company and pioneer in clinical scale, non-viral cell loading systems, announces it will be a Co-Sponsor and featured speaker of the Phacilitate Cell and Gene T...
NORTHERN THERAPEUTICS AND MAXCYTE INITIATE LANDMARK ENGINEERED CELL THERAPY TRIAL FOR FATAL LUNG DISEASE
December 11, 2006
First Patient Treated in PHACeT Study at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto
TORONTO, ON, and GAITHERSBURG, MD, December 12, 2006 - Northern Therapeutics, Inc., a Canadian biotechnology company, and MaxCyte, Inc., a U.S. therapeutics company, announced today the commencement of the first-ever ...
MediQuest hires former CFO for Roche Consumer Health as new Chief Financial Officer
November 27, 2006
Bothell, WA - Nov. 28, 2006 - MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that recently released results of a Phase IIIa clinical trial for a new potential therapy to treat Raynaud’s Disease, is pleased to announce that Douglas R. Sanders, MBA, has joined the company ...
By Eric FettersHerald Writer
BOTHELL - MediQuest Therapeutics' treatment for a painful condition that affects the hands and toes of millions of people has shown promising results in late-stage clinical tests.
The phase 3 study of its gel - tentatively called Vascana - showed both "statistically an...
MaxCyte on track to raise $20M to fund cell research
November 23, 2006
By Vandana Sinha
Staff Reporter
MaxCyte has rasied rearly $17 million in a second round of financing that could reach more than $20 million before it closes in six months.
With the new venture capital, MaxCyte’s seven-year funding total is just shy of $25 million. Funds have...
Vascana Phase IIIa clinical trial results hold promise for millions suffering from Raynaud's Disease
November 12, 2006
(Bothell, WA - Nov. 13, 2006) Today MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced the results of its Phase IIIa clinical study of Vascana - a non-systemic, topical application designed to treat Raynaud's Disease - at the annual American College of Rheumatology (ACR) mee...
MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Addition to Management Team
October 15, 2006
(Bothell, WA - 16 October, 2006) MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc. a privately held biotechnology company specializing in infectious and inflammatory skin diseases today announced that Allison Formal, MBA, has joined MediQuest as its vice president for business development. Formal will be part of the com...
Arthur Mandell elected to Board of DirectorsJudith Hedstrom joins as SVP, Corporate and Business DevelopmentCarl June, M.D. added to Scientific and Medical Advisors
Gaithersburg, MD, September 13, 2006 - MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical stage therapeutic company and pioneer in clinical scale cell loa...
MaxCyte To Present at Bio Korea, BioJapan and Global Venture Forum Japan
August 22, 2006
Gaithersburg, MD, August 23, 2006 - MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical stage therapeutic company and pioneer in clinical scale, non-viral cell loading systems, announced today that Douglas Kolodny-Hirsch, Ph.D., Senior Director Business Development, will be presenting at the Bio Korea 2006 Conference in Seou...
MEDINET AND MAXCYTE INITIATE COLLABORATION FOR NOVEL CANCER IMMUNO-CELL THERAPY
August 15, 2006
Amended August 22, 2006 from original release dated August 16, 2006:
Gaithersburg, MD and Yokohama, Japan – August 16, 2006 – MaxCyte, Inc. and Medinet Co., Ltd. announced the signing of a collaboration agreement, made on August 9, 2006. Under this greement MaxCyte will optimize its pro...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals licences complement inhibitor Compstatin from the University of Pennsylvania
July 26, 2006
July 27, 2006 - Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive, worldwide licensing agreement with the University of Pennsylvania that provides broad rights to develop and commercialize University of Pennsylvania's Compstatin class of complement-inhibiting pepti...
MediQuest Adds Gregory As VP And Chief Medical Officer
July 13, 2006
MediQuest Therapeutics Inc., a developer of treatments for infectious and inflammatory skin diseases and conditions, said it has named Jeff Gregory to the position of vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer.
This is a newly created position at MediQuest, a company spokeswoman s...
By Lorie Konish
MediQuest Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company developing treatments for infectious and inflammatory skin diseases and conditions, said it has closed a $16 million Series A funding round.
The Series A round was led by Integra Ventures and Novo A/S. Other participants in the ...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals awarded Phase I STTR grants from the National Eye Institute
May 31, 2006
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, together with academic collaborators, received two Phase I STTR grants from the National Eye Institute to develop new, less invasive delivery technologies for ocular therapeutics. The first grant, involving a collaboration with the Lions Eye Center of the University of Loui...
Private Equity Insider, May 12thFellowship Ranks Swell With Big 2006 Class
Article by Tracey Regan, Senior Writer, PEI
Several up-and-coming venture capitalists received notice this week that they have won Kauffman fellowships, coveted two-year apprenticeships served under some of the industry's m...
Potentia Pharmaceuticals hosts reception at the 2006 ARVO annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale
April 2, 2006
Potentia hosted a reception in Fort Lauderdale during the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting. The event brought together the entire Potentia team and Scientific Advisory Board, along with collaborators and potential partners and introduced them to Potentia and...
SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES LICENSES MAXCYTE CELL LOADING TECHNOLOGY FOR ZFP THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM FOR HIV/AIDS
March 1, 2006
Gaithersburg, MD and Richmond, CA - March [2], 2006 – MaxCyte, Inc. and Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced today a license, option, development, and supply agreement to utilize MaxCyte's proprietary cell loading system for use in Sangamo's HIV/CCR5 ZFP Therapeutic™ p...
GERON LICENSES MAXCYTE CELL LOADING TECHNOLOGY FOR USE IN CLOSED-SYSTEM CANCER VACCINE MANUFACTURING
February 14, 2006
Gaithersburg, MD and Menlo Park, CA - February 15, 2006 - MaxCyte, Inc. and Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) announced today a license, option, development, and supply agreement to utilize MaxCyte's proprietary cell loading system in the manufacture of mRNA-loaded dendritic cell-based vaccines,...
MediQuest Therapeutics Receives Special Protocol Assessment from the U.S. FDA
January 9, 2006
(Bothell, WA - 10 January 2006). MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has received recommendations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Special Clinical Protocol Assessment (SCPA) procedure with respect to their protocol on a Phase III "in-life" study of a topic...
MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc. Enrolls Patients in its Phase IIB Clinical Study for the Treatment of Onychomycosis (Toenail Fungus)
January 3, 2006
(Bothell, WA - 4 January 2006). MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it is enrolling patients in its U.S. Phase IIB clinical study for treating onychomycosis, more commonly known as toenail fungus. The therapeutic agents, which are FDA-approved anti-fungal agents, are formulated into Me...
Masa Closes On Half Of Projected $30M Life Science Fund
July 24, 2005
By Alex Halperin,
Dow Jones VentureWire7/25/2005.
Advisory firm Masa Inc. has closed on about half of a $30 million life science fund that will aim to unite capital from Japan and Korea with North American technologies, A. Sinclair Dunlop, Masa's director of new business ventures, told VentureWir...