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December 2009


 

CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series 2009-2010
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Events Column
1/28  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: Advanced Orthopedic Technologies/CardioPhotonics. Anlyan Center, Yale Medical School, New Haven. more
2/25  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: Arbor Fuel. Kline Geology Lab Building, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven.
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2/10  MIT Enterprise Forum of CT more
3/10  MIT Enterprise Forum of CT more
3/11  4:00 pm - 6:00pm
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: Jonathan Rothberg. Anlyan Center, Yale Medical School, New Haven. more
4/7  MIT Enterprise Forum of CT more
4/8  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: Amarin Pharma Inc. Anlyan Center, Yale Medical School, New Haven. more
5/5  MIT Enterprise Forum of CT more
5/12  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: JS Genetics. Anlyan Center, Yale Medical School, New Haven. more
5/26  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series: Kolltan Pharmaceuticals. Anlyan Center, Yale Medical School, New Haven. more

Bioscience Roundtable Brings Leaders Together
From the desk of Paul Pescatello, President and CEO of CURE
The Bioscience Business Roundtable event November 16 in West Hartford brought together business and government leaders concerned about the progress of bioscience in our state. Speakers included U.S. Congressman Chris Murphy and Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell, as well as State Senators Jonathan Harris and Gary LeBeau and Lt. Governor Michael Fedele. 
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Cara Presents at CURE/Yale BioHaven Series
Inaugurating the 2009-2010 CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship seminar series was a presentation October 21 by Cara Therapeutics Inc., an emerging biotechnology company in Shelton focused on developing novel therapeutics to treat human diseases associated with pain and inflammation.
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Helix Presents at CURE/Yale BioHaven Series
Continuing the 2009-2010 CURE/Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship seminar series was a presentation November 18 by Helix Therapeutics. Based in New Haven, Helix is a seed-stage company dedicated to establishing cures for genetic diseases using triplex-forming oligonucleotide (TFO) technology.
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Kolltan, BioRelix Draw 3Q CT Venture Capital
Venture capital investments in Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and BioRelix, Inc., both of New Haven, totaled $8.6 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to The MoneyTree® Report, issued quarterly by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters.
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Connecticut Stem Cell Research Roundup
Connecticut – the stem cell state
UConn researchers have generated 10 new stem cell lines from the cells of patients with a genetic disorder called Angelman syndrome, that enable them to watch how the disorder unfolds in petri dishes.
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CURE Member News Digest
 454 Life Sciences collaborates on codfish sequencing
 Alexion serves growing number of patients
 Amarin to increase Mystic local workforce
 Bayer HealthCare wins approval for menstrual indication
 Boehringer Ingelheim closes animal health deal with Pfizer
 Bristol-Myers Squibb reports brain cancer progress
 Cantor Colburn attorneys on trademark committee
 Connecticut Innovations invests in Soft Tissue Regeneration
 Danbury Hospital hosts Spirit of Women weekend
 GlaxoSmithKline reports H1N1 vaccine progress
 Hartford Hospital gets grant for statin effects research

 Johnson & Johnson names Mulcahy of Xerox to Board
 Marinus names George Horner of Sofinnova to Board
 MannKind presents insulin data in Vienna
 NanoViricides raised $4.3 million in equity financing
 Pfizer
reports progress on arthritis drug
 PhRMA issues statement on health care reform
 UConn studies heart disease medicines
 Yale sequences protein-coding genes in the genome

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