Co-Founder and Chairman, AutoHarvest
President and CEO, Regulus Therapeutics
Managing Partner, Rho Capital Partners and Rho Ventures
Partner, Emerging Companies and Life Sciences, Cooley LLP
Chief of Genetics, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Founder and Managing Partner, PureTech Ventures
Partner, Latham and Watkins
VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google
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Startup accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars are known for producing the latest and greatest in Web startups. But there’s a set of established and accomplished companies—like ZipCar (NASDAQ: ZIP), Xenogen, and Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT)—that also received startup coaching, mentoring,... Read more »
In March, global consulting firm Ernst & Young released an annual report for its life sciences clients called “The Third Place: Healthcare Everywhere.” It discusses a range of topics, from apps designed to improve patient adherence to medical treatments, to games that... Read more »
Catching up on some venture capital news on a rainy Tuesday…
—SessionM, a Boston-based mobile advertising startup, has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Charles River Ventures, according to a report in Dow Jones VentureWire, which put the company’s valuation... Read more »
Hospitals typically check patients in with one system, track their healthcare with another, and process insurance claims with yet another. Boston-based Kyruus is looking to pull together all these different data points and many more to help healthcare providers tackle patient... Read more »
Here’s our wrap-up of life sciences news over the past week, along with some life sciences data from the latest Connect Innovation Report.
—Bedford, MA-based Hologic (NASDAQ: HOLX) agreed to pay $3.7 billion, or $82.75 a share, for Gen-Probe (NASDAQ: [[GPRO]]),... Read more »
Michael Nusbaum rarely thought twice about giving his personal cell phone number to patients after he operated on them. Nusbaum is a bariatric surgeon at New Jersey’s Morristown Medical Center, and he wanted patients to be able to reach him easily by... Read more »
San Diego’s innovation economy added 75 new technology companies and 695 jobs during the last three months of 2011, according to the Connect Innovation Report for the fourth quarter of 2011. New jobs created in San Diego’s innovation sector during the... Read more »
Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
Co-Founder and CEO, Modumental
General Partner, Alloy Ventures
Former SVP of Discovery Research, Amgen
Chairman and CEO, Digital Chocolate
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