Palm Beach Gardens, FL – Aurora Diagnostics, a diagnostic lab and anatomic pathology company, has filed for a $150 million initial public offering of stock. (more…)

Atlanta, GA – Alimera Sciences Inc. developing prescription eye treatments, has raised about $72 million in an initial public offering of stock. (more…)

Durham, NC – Hyperbranch Medical Technologies Inc., a specialty medical device company that develops and markets products primarily for the traumatic or surgically induced wound market, has nabbed $2.1 million in equity financing, according to a regulatory filing. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC - Sandoz, a unit of Novartis, has agreed to acquire Oriel Therapeutics, a North Carolina-based developer of inhaled drug delivery systems for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC – Liquidia Technologies, a firm developing a nanotechnology-based improved delivery for drugs and vaccines, has added $5 million from PPD Inc. to its C round, bring the total to $25 million. (more…)

Atlanta, GA – Alimera Sciences, a company developing prescription eye treatments, says it will offer six million common shares at between $15 and $17 a share in its intial public offering of stock. If the shares price at the high end of that range, it would have an initial market cap of $102 million. (more…)