Medical Device Business Week
Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . April 28th, 2004
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Agendia BV - Pharmacogenomics firm closes series A financing round
Alliance for Lupus Research - Lupus group announces $6.7M in research grants
Alta Partners - Venture capital fund closes $475M in life sciences funds
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceutical company announces offering of convertible senior notes
Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceutical firm raises $43M; updates progress on AP23573
Beijing Med-Pharm Corporation - Chinese pharmaceutical firm closes private placement
Boehringer Ingelheim - Pharmaceutical company's performance outpaces the market
Boston Biomedica, Inc. - Biotech firm reports 2.3% increase in revenue
Burrill & Company - Biotech endures through choppy month
Business & Finance - North Carolina officials deny drug company donations affect policy
Business & Finance - Sky Financial Group announces sale and acquisition
Cardima, Inc. - Cardiac device firm reports 7.2% decrease in revenues
Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. - Pharmaceutical firm appoints Abdalian as chief financial officer
Cutting Edge Information - Blending of branded and generic pharmaceutical industries expected to continue
Cypress Bioscience, Inc. - Biotech firm reports loss of $0.33 per share
AEterna Laboratories, Inc. - Positive preclinical results reported for novel pyrazole compound
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Study expands on effectiveness of AP23464, in Gleevec-resistant leukemia cells
Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. - Clinical trial initiated in Spain for bone grafting
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - Screening finds 25% participants at risk for AAA
Aegera Therapeutics, Inc. - Phase I trial of XIAP initiated
Aerocrine, Inc. - New asthma breath test now ready for Canada
Affymetrix, Inc. - New evidence for whole genome linkage in bipolar disorder
Albany Medical College - Lab finds way to grow large number of neurons from stem cells
Allergan, Inc. - Lupin enters collaboration to promote Zymar to pediatricians
American Medical Association - Physicians, nurses and U.S. government release new food-borne illness guide
American Society of Breast Surgeons - First 1000 patients enrolled in MammoSite patient registry
Amgen, Inc. - Tularik to be acquired for $1.3B
Anxiety - Social problems linked to mental illness in Pakistan
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group HE 10/92 study results released
Arrow International, Inc. - NanoHorizons to partner on nanobiomedical device development
Avian Influenza - Bird infected with the West Nile virus found in Mississippi
Baylor College of Medicine - AIB1/SRC-3 deficiency suppresses breast cancer progression in mice
BioGentech Corp. - Australian patent issued covering use of Cyanocobalamin for allergies
Bionomics Limited - Deal signed with Southern Cross University for epilepsy, anxiety R&D
Boston Scientific Corporation - Enrollment concluded in Taxus V trial; FDA clears Contour SE
Breast Cancer - Study suggests exposure to WWII famine increases breast cancer risk
Business Update - Company proposes insurance replacement deal
Business Update - MHA adds 50,000 long-term care beds
CHU Nantes - Methods for production and purification of rAAV-2 vector reviewed
CHU, Reims - Novel RT-PCR assay can aid diagnosis of EV-related meningitis
Can-Fite BioPharma - Interim results released from phase II study of CF101
Cancer Treatment - University of Nebraska helps set new standards for treating cancer patient nausea
CancerVax Corporation - CancerVax announces presentation of phase II data on Canvaxin
Cardiac Arrhythmias - Mouse study shows plugging calcium leak may prevent deadly irregular heartbeat
Cell Genesys, Inc. - Preclinical data for oncolytic virus therapy released
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. - Agreement signed for phase III Xyotax trial
Center for the Advancement of Genomics - HP enters partnership to further genomic discovery in life science
Center of Oncology, Poland - Ku86 levels correlate with magnitude of radiation-induced lymphocyte DNA breaks
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois - Immunogenicity against HPV enhanced by Salmonella enterica phenotype
Cepheid - Patent awarded on quantitative analysis of nucleic acid amplification reaction
Chad Therapeutics, Inc. - Yager named CEO at respiratory care device firm
Children's Hospital Seattle - TV linked to kids' attention problems
Children's Hospital of Michigan - Linezolid effective against nosocomial VREF in premature infant
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Research offers intriguing clues to "Trojan horse" gene in HIV infection
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Exercise is key to reversing obesity-related heart risk in children
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Keyhole surgery offers same prognosis as conventional surgery
Chonnam National University - Artemisinin can augment effects of anti-leukemia drugs
Chromos Molecular Systems, Inc. - Manufacturing agreement extended with Lonza Biologics
Chungnam National University - Effect of gamma radiation on hemoglobin clarified
Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Role of CD40L dysregulation in HIV-induced APC dysfunction reviewed
Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. - Data on disease-specific inflammatory diagnostics reported at cancer meeting
Cochrane Vaccines Field - Adverse events of aluminum-containing DTP vaccines reviewed
Commonwealth Fund - Over 40% of Midwestern U.S. adults report problems paying medical bills
Cornell University - Retinoic acid suppresses LIF signaling in murine embryonic stem cells
Corus Pharma - Pharmaceutical firm appoints Richard B. Brewer to board of directors
Cutting Edge Information - Cardiovascular drug combinations offer improved treatment options
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