RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The North Carolina Biotechnology Center is supporting the war on illness by providing $347,000 in loans. (more…)

Atlanta, GA– Southeast BIO (SEBIO) announced today that it has selected 29 companies to participate in its 10th Anniversary Investor Forum, an event that brings together the Southeast’s most promising life sciences venture opportunities with the regional and national venture capital community. The SEBIO Investor Forum will be held December 4-5, 2008, at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, FL. The gathering is the Southeast’s premier life sciences venture capital conference. (more…)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – DiaKine Therapeutics, developers of drugs
designed to cause diabetes to go into remission, today announced that BlueTree Allied Angels has invested in the company. (more…)

Charlottesville, Va. — Soft Tissue Regeneration (STR), a Charlottesville-based medical technology firm that develops synthetic scaffolds that help encourage tissue regeneration, said that it has raised $3.5 million in its first round of funding, led by MentorTech Ventures. (more…)