Biotech SF: Tang Capital Partners LP

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Monday, April 25, 2011

A.P. Pharma raises $4.5M, installs new executive team

A.P. Pharma Inc. has raised up to $4.5 million in convertible notes and named a new executive team, the company said Monday.
The Redwood City specialty pharmaceutical company secured the funding from investors including Tang Capital Partners LP.

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• "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)

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