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OncoMed offers $115M IPO bet on cancer stem cell work

A year after scoring a $20 million milestone from Bayer, OncoMed Pharmaceuticals is preparing to see if it can generate enough excitement from investors for its cancer stem cell work to support a $115 million IPO.

Company 'insiders' left with 43% of Verastem's shares

Anyone trying to understand what it takes to pull off a successful biotech IPO these days should check out a series of 13Ds Verastem's ( $VSTM ) insiders filed last month. In the days after...

Dainippon bags Boston Biomedical and cancer stem cell tech in $2.6B buyout

Boston Biomedical's focus on targeting cancer stem cells has paid off.

Fledgling Verastem outlines investor strategy behind high-risk $50M IPO

As today's report on 2011's small class of biotech IPOs makes clear, this is a lousy time for a drug developer to go public--even if it has a compelling late-stage program to boast about. But

Verastem snags $32M for drugs against cancer stem cells

The young field of cancer stem cells has some new financial firepower behind it. Start-up Verastem has closed a $32 million Series B round of financing with plans to advance its first drug against

Tiny Stemline's brain cancer vax grabs a little of ASCO's limelight

With headlines at ASCO zeroing in on star cancer drugs like vemurafenib , crizotinib and cabozantinib , it was difficult for some of the smaller biotechs on the scene to share in the limelight. But