@FierceBiotech: MA-based Proteon Therapeutics has raised $15.2M in an equity and options financing. Item | Follow @FierceBiotech
@JohnCFierce: Generic drug makers agree to program in which they pay an initial $299M to speed up FDA reviews, clear a backlog. Story | Follow @JohnCFierce
@RyanMFierce: Broad Institute CIO says genome research outfit on way to filling 10-petabyte capacity. Interview | Follow @RyanMFierce
@MaureenFierce: MIT's Lincoln Lab researchers have developed tech that may someday cure the any virus. Report | Follow @MaureenFierce
> Switzerland's Addex Pharmaceuticals has tapped Dr. Bharatt Chowrira as its new CEO. He had been a senior VP and COO at Nektar. Release
> Chugai has nabbed the Japanese marketing rights to the melanoma drug vemurafenib from Roche. Chugai plans to start a Phase I in 2012. Release
> Some of the Icagen investors trying to block Pfizer's $50 million deal to buy up the biotech say the company could actually be worth up to $165 million. Story
Pharma News
@FiercePharma: J&J chief gets chance to advise Obama on job creation. How about this: Avoid recalls, Mr. President. Article | Follow @FiercePharma
> J&J, AZ nix Facebook pages on commenting rule change. Article
> Pfizer wins patent case against Teva. News
Biotech IT News
> Accelyrs' revenue Q2 up 86% after mergers. Report
> New CIO reach tackles IT needs at the Broad Institute. More
> Virtual rats in the works to aid disease research. Details
> Perceptive Informatics does part in Parexel's losing Q4. Story
> BMS taps GNS Healthcare for computer model of information. News
> Medidata sees CFO resign after Q2 growth. Article
Medical Device News
> Device industry sees more investment, fewer deals. Details
> Sen. Brown visits Covidien, lobbies against device tax. News
> Southern Diagnostic Laboratories bought by Solstas. Story
> NEJM authors come out in support of IOM report. Article
And Finally... Researchers at the University of York have won $3.5 million to fund their work on prostate cancer stem cells. Report