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Corbus Pharmaceuticals Announces Strategic Collaboration with Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to Develop and Commercialize Lenabasum in Japan for Systemic Sclerosis and Dermatomyositis

Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRBP) (“Corbus” or the “Company”) announced today that they have entered into a strategic collaboration with Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

January 3, 2019
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6 min read
Business

Personalis Appoints Biotech Industry Executive Clinton Musil as Chief Business Officer

Personalis, Inc., a leader in advanced genomics for precision oncology, today announced the appointment of Clinton Musil as Chief Business Officer. Mr. Musil will focus initially on financing strategy.

January 3, 2019
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3 min read
BioMidwest

POPS! Diabetes Care Inc. Raises New Financing Round for Launch of POPS! one System

POPS! Diabetes Care, developer of the POPS! one blood glucose monitoring system, today announced that the company closed on a new equity financing, led by 30Ventures and joined by other investors.

January 3, 2019
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3 min read
Business

Starbucks Executive Kris Engskov Joins Aegis Living As President As The Company Opens A New Chapter On Premium Care Quality And Growth

Aegis Living, a leading senior living owner, developer and operator known for its disruptive approach to assisted living and memory care, is pleased to announce the hire of Kris Engskov to the role of president.

January 3, 2019
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5 min read
Job Trends

Ascent Partners with Renaissance Periodization

Ascent, a sports nutrition company committed to providing clean and pure performance products to athletes, is now the Official Performance Nutrition Partner of Renaissance Periodization (RP)

January 3, 2019
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2 min read
Business

Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Codiak BioSciences Announce Strategic Collaboration to Research, Develop and Commercialize Engineered Exosomes to Create Therapies for Hard-to-Treat Cancers

Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) and Codiak BioSciences, Inc. today announced that the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement focused on the research, development and commercialization of exosome therapeutics to treat cancer.

January 3, 2019
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8 min read
BioForest

Immusoft Raises $20 Million in Series B Financing

Immusoft Corporation, a Seattle-Wash.-based cell therapy company, announced today it has held the final closing in its $20 million oversubscribed Series B financing.

January 3, 2019
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4 min read
Genetown

Verastem Oncology Outlines Strategic Priorities for 2019 and Highlights Recent Progress

Verastem, Inc. (Nasdaq: VSTM) (Verastem Oncology or the Company), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing medicines to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients, today highlighted the company’s recent progress and outlined strategic priorities for 2019.

January 3, 2019
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21 min read
Genetown

Electronic Glasses Deliver Visual Independence for People With Severe Vision Loss

Massachusetts-based Zoomax (USA) Inc. announced today the introduction of Acesight, brand new wearable electronic glasses that deliver true visual independence for the millions of people in the USA and worldwide who suffer from severe vision loss.

January 3, 2019
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2 min read
Statistics Canada - The Chief Statistician’s Top 10 for 2018

2018 was an action-packed year in the world of data. We explored many newsworthy topics this year and published 1,221 releases in The Daily.

January 3, 2019
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5 min read