News, Money and Drugs – Monday, March 9, 2009
March 9, 2009 at 3:09 pm EST | Tags: News
A few other tidbits from today we didn’t
mention amid the merger mayhem…
-Surface Logix has raised $20M for their obesity drug – congrats. [Xconomy]
-Insider trading at Schering-Plough? Check out this piece… [WSJ Deal Journal]
-Schering-Plough’s CEO Fred Hassan will get a nice exit package – $59M. [BNET Pharma]
-Human Genome Sciences’ Albuferon for hepatitis C good, but not good enough, shares nosedive. [Yahoo!Finance]
-It’s almost showtime for Avastin’s glioma data. [Yahoo!Finance]
-Obama’s new stem policy sends stem cell stocks in the green. [The Associated Press]
-Arana’s psoriasis drug meets endpoint…will Cephalon up its bid? [The Age]
-Mannkind buying Pfizer’s insulin facility…why? [BioSpace]
-Victory Pharma gets infused with $45M from Essex Woodlands for continued Naprelan sales. [PR Newswire]
-The New York Times tells the common folk what us biotechs already know: THERE’S NO WAY OUT!!! [The New York Times]
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