So he left and started what became Nektar Therapeutics with Robert Platz of the Stanford Research Institute.
In 2011 she added a center for advanced therapeutics with a bone marrow transplant unit.
The results are also a big win for Sarepta Therapeutics, the Cambridge, Mass.
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In 2010, a similar FDA panel voted 13-7 to support Orexigen Therapeutics Inc.
Rivals include the Pharming Group in the Netherlands, Scottish outfit PPL Therapeutics and Boston's Genzyme Transgenics.
This morning, Sarepta Therapeutics released data on eteplirsen, its experimental drug for muscular dystrophy.
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That's a far-out goal, given that Fate Therapeutics hasn't even selected a chief executive.
Diagnostics have long been the poor relation of higher-profile therapeutics in the health care realm.
And he changed the name of the company to Sirna Therapeutics to reflect its new mission.
The company is also collaborating with such companies as Abbott Laboratories, Celldex Therapeutics Inc.
Instead the company must pluck out one or two of those rare genes and turn them into therapeutics.
The analysis includes 2907 therapeutics companies that raised venture capital dollars between 2000-2010 across 5100 rounds of financing.
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Osiris Therapeutics Inc. is enrolling patients in a phase II trial for Prochymal, which contains mesenchymal stem cells.
And they're looking for entrepreneurs with solutions in the areas of surveillance and detection, diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics.
Shares in Pfizer's partner in Exubera, Nektar Therapeutics, fell 15% in premarket trading.
Robert Hariri, corporate co-chair and CEO of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, welcomed the crowd.
She has new hope, however, for an experimental drug made by an unknown New Jersey biotech called PTC Therapeutics.
That is the approach being taken by Ziopharm Oncology and by Nektar Therapeutics.
An experimental breast cancer drug being developed by tiny Celldex Therapeutics of Needham.
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For the project Southampton University teamed up with the Genome Therapeutics Corporation, of Massachusetts and the Schering Plough Corporation.
Such discoveries have the potential to create a huge new biotech industry based on the development of novel therapeutics.
He founded Seaside Therapeutics in 2005 with Randall Carpenter, who leads the company.
New York City-based Stemline Therapeutics develops treatments that target both cancer tumors and cancer stem cells, which generate tumors.
We'd like to highlight four companies with unique approaches to stem cell therapies: Cytori Therapeutics, Geron, Athersys and Celgene.
Based on comments made at the recent Cowen Therapeutics Conference, experts believe that apixiban will be the best-in-class agent.
This piece was written by Ron Cohen, the chief executive of Acorda Therapeutics.
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He is also chairman of Calon Cardio Technology Ltd and Allerna Therapeutics Ltd.
There was, for instance, great interest by pharmaceutical companies in drugs being developed by Esperion Therapeutics to raise good cholesterol.
The industry's ties to docs are so cozy that at a recent conference on "Trans-catheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, " in Washington, D.
The leader in the group is Cytori Therapeutics (CYTX), which develops and makes medical products and devices for regenerative medicine.
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