Biotech SF: Redwood Bioscience

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Monday, June 27, 2011

Takeda venture arm invests in Redwood Bioscience

The venture arm of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. will fund further development of a protein-modification technology from Redwood Bioscience Inc.
Redwood, of Burlingame, said the undisclosed amount from Takeda Ventures Inc. will be used to forward the company’s protein-chemical engineering technology, which could be used to better deliver drugs with better potency.

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Some of my favorite stories.

• "The fight of his life" (2007)

Last year Mike Homer helped raise the money for 2,000 medical research computers. Now researchers are using that equipment in an attempt to save his life.

• "For reporter, CJD is more than a story" (2007)

Seven years ago -- nearly to the day -- my mother died of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.

• "A son's YouTube plea for Avastin" (2010)

Josh Turnage is your typical teenager, trying to discover what he wants to do in college and with his life. But a 7-minute, 41-second YouTube video he produced about his mother's fight with breast cancer may thrust him into a debate between drug makers and the agency that regulates them.

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