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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

CardioKinetix raises $44M Series E round

CardioKinetix Inc. said Tuesday it has raised $44 million in a two-tranche Series E financing.
The Menlo Park-based medical device company makes implant technology to treat heart failure. It plans to use the funds to further its clinical studies and for commercialization.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Biotech startup Cyterix raises $9.2M Series A

Biotech startup Cyterix Pharmaceuticals Inc. raised $9.2 million from The Column Group and SV Life Sciences in a Series A financing.
The San Francisco company, founded by academics Steve Everett and Paul Ortiz de Montellano and the late biotech entrepreneur John Curd, is working to discover and develop drugs that target certain enzymes that are highly over-expressed in many cancers. Specifically, it targets extra-hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes.

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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.

• "New device could knock out old dialysis technology" (2011)

Shuvo Roy has all the makings for the world's first implantable artificial kidney, thanks to nanotechnology and a web of nationwide collaborations.

All he needs now is $20 million.