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Monday Deal Review: January 14, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 14, 2013! This week’s big news is that Cytochroma, a privately held company, will be acquired by OPKO Health.  Also on the M&A side, Asia-Biochem completed their acquisition of China’s Tieling Wanshunda Starch Company Ltd for over CDN$44 million. There was not much activity in the investment space, however ProMetric has been able to close $10 million in financing from Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co.,  as we’ve covered previously.  Find out more about these transactions, as well as the rest of this week’s major Canadian Biotech news, by clicking through! Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 30, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for Monday July 30, 2012.  Highlights from the previous weeks include the closing of the $13 million public offering by Trimel Pharmaceuticals and $7.5 million loan, as well as the M&A activity involving Functional Technologies Inc. and Medifocus Inc. Read on to learn more.  Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: June 20, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for June 20, 2011.  Notable transactions from the previous week included the public offering of units by Resverlogix, as well as investments by HTX and the Business Development Bank of Canada in each of Milestone Pharmaceuticals  and Profound Medical Inc.  Read on to learn more. Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 24, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 24, 2010.  Despite a slow financing week, there were a few operational announcements as well as awards granted to Canadian biotech companies by the NIH and the UK’s Medical Research Council.  Read on to learn more.  Read more of this post