Radiation reduction during imaging procedures is a top priority for hospitals and health care providers. Startup Controlrad Inc. has raised a $15 million series B round to market its Trace mobile C-arm radiation reduction technology for use during fluoroscopically guided procedures. That has already been FDA cleared.

Elicio Therapeutics Inc. CEO Robert Connelly acknowledged "a general malaise about cancer vaccines," but described the strategy of his firm to BioWorld as "very different. None of these other approaches [has] delivered the goods to the lymph nodes, where the immune response is orchestrated."

DUBLIN – European biotechnology firms engaged in the discovery and development of drugs and other therapeutic modalities raised $2.366 billion in equity financing during the third quarter, taking the running total for the year so far to $5.570 billion.

LONDON - The Brexit factor appears to be holding back fundraising across all sectors in the U.K., and life sciences is no exception. After a small pick-up in the second quarter, the third quarter has disappointed, with £214 million (US$263.2 million) raised by U.K. biotechs across the public and private markets.

HONG KONG – GI Innovation Inc., a microbiome combination drug developer based in Seoul, South Korea, has recently issued fully paid convertible preferred stock (CPS) worth KRW37.5 billion (US$31 million) for a series B investment.

HONG KONG – GI Innovation Inc., a microbiome combination drug developer based in Seoul, South Korea, has recently issued fully paid convertible preferred stock (CPS) worth KRW37.5 billion (US$31 million) for a series B investment.

DUBLIN – T3 Pharmaceuticals AG raised more than CHF12 million (US$12.1 million) in a second financing round to progress its immuno-oncology technology, which exploits a bacterial protein transport system to deliver a therapeutic payload to tumor cells.

The business Martin Moore started years ago in college to make ends meet was dubbed Orion. Many years later, his new business, Meissa Vaccines Inc., was named for a star in Orion's constellation and could more than help him make ends meet.