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Below you'll find recent news articles regarding the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse and the Life Sciences Industry in Pittsburgh. The most recent articles are listed first. Press Releases
BIOGEN IDEC AND KNOPP NEUROSCIENCES ANNOUNCE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR LATE-STAGE ALS DRUG CANDIDATE
Cernostics, Geisinger to partner on personalized healthcare
Pittsburgh-based startup Cohera Medical raises $12.7M, plans European launch
RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc. Acquired By ExonHit Therapeutics, S.A.
PLSG Portfolio Company Instrumental to Center of Excellence
THERMAL THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES FDA CLEARANCE OF THE VERATHERMTM PORTABLE HYPERTHERMIC PERFUSION SYSTEM
PLSG Portfolio Company iNTELOMED Inc. Continues Commercialization
Efforts
Lipella Pharmaceuticals raising $3 to $5M for pioneering bladder therapy, hiring
Lipella looks to raise Series A round, complete clinical trials by end
of 2010
NEURO KINETICS IS COMPANY "TO WATCH", SAYS TOP DEFENSE PUBLICATION
Neuro Kinetics to Release Vest 6.7 Software at Audiology Convference
Pittsburgh’s Targeted Incubator Taking Innovation to the Next Level
ReGear Closes on $2.5 Million in Financing
Cohera Medical Secures $16.1 Million in Series B Financing
ClearCount Medical Solutions Closes Series A Financing Round
Cohera Medical, Inc. Receives Phase 1 SBIR Award from NIH
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Announces Launch of Arthritis Imaging, Inc. Western PA's Engineer of the Year Joining Ranks With Promising Pittsburgh Firm REDPATH INTEGRATED PATHOLOGY, INC. CONCLUDES SERIES A ROUND WITH $6.5 MILLION IN VENTURE CAPITAL REDPATH INTEGRATED PATHOLOGY, INC. CONCLUDES FIRST CLOSING OF SERIES A FINANCING LED BY NEWSPRING CAPITAL PLSG Incubator Company Diamyd Inc. Achieves Milestone DIAMYD™ DIABETES DRUG SHOWS EFFICACY IN A PHASE II TYPE 1-DIABETES TRIAL Cohera Medical, Inc. Announces Closing of Series A Financing for $6.79 Million Pittsburgh Company PinMed Achieves Important Commercialization Milestone Windber-Based Applied Computational Technologies Wins $35,000 in Ben Franklin Business Plan Competition Cellomics Founder Forms Cellumen, Inc. to Understand Cell Functions: Cellumen is the Newest Tenant in PLSG Incubator Immunetrics, Inc. Receives $100,000 Investment medSage Technologies, LLC Receives $200,000 Joint Investment Commitment Respironics’ Founder Gerald McGinnis Honored With Two Entrepreneur Awards BodyMedia Receives Distinguished International Medical Design Award for Weight Management System Respironics’ Introduces BiPAP® Pro 2 With Bi-Flex® Respironics’ Introduces ComfortLite™ Nasal Mask Respironics Acquires Caradyne Limited NanoHorizons Announces Agreement with pSiMedica Paradigm Genetics to Acquire TissueInformatics Creating A Unique Systems Biology Platform For Life Sciences Discovery Respironics Recognized as 2003 Manufacturer of the Year Respironics Honored With 8th Zenith Award Automated Cell Hits the “One Million Milestone” in its Antibody Discovery Program Automated Cell adds two new members to its Scientific Advisory Board Renal Solutions Relocates Engineering to Pittsburgh from Rochester, NY News and Announcements
Cellumen Partners with Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation to Develop New Assays for Early Treatment of Alzheimer’s
Ross company's product designed to keep better track of surgical sponges
Applied Computational Technologies Appoints a New CEO
The AIT Products Used for Pilot Study on Autism
Coventina Changes Name to ReGear, Readies for Market Entry
RedPath Announces Closing of Insider Round of Financing for $3 Million
Oracle Healthcare Acquisition Corp. and Precision Therapeutics Announce Definitive Merger Agreement - December 4, 2007
Neuro Kinetics appoints Dr. Terri Ives Clinical Director, Audiology - December 3, 2007
Cohera Medical, Inc. Awarded Patent, Second SBIR Grant - 8/2/2007 Congratulations to iNTELOMED - June 19, 2007 FDA grants clearance to ClearCount Medical Solutions -June 13, 2007 Cellumen Closes on Funding Round -July 10, 2007 Post Gazette - May 25, 2007 New imaging method helps joint diagnosis , by Anita Srikameswaran, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/26/2007 Children's Hospital launches spin-off , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/25/2007 AppCompTech Announces Investment Awards , by , Yahoo! Finance, 11/3/2006 Platika to head Cohera board , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/2/2006 Innovation grant awarded to NanoDynamics , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/03/2006 RedPath raises $4 million , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/26/2006 Pittsburgh firm among 15 to present at VC fair , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/26/2006 Former Respironics CEO joins Cygnus Manufacturing , by , Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 9/24/2006 Invivodata gets $10 million in financing , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/14/2006 Investors open wallets for two area tech startups , by Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/12/2006 TandemHeart(R) PTVA(R) System From CardiacAssist Used in Nation's Top-Ranked Hospitals , by , PRNewswire, 8/4/2006 MD&DI Magazine Names CardiacAssist to its '50 Companies to Watch' List , by , PR Newswire, 7/17/2006 E-Tags Could Prevent Surgical Errors , by Randy Dotinga, MSN.com, 7/17/2006 What Does Bioinformatics Mean? To an Ailing Industrial Region, the Answer Is Jobs , by DAVID STABA, New York Times, 7/8/2006 Greenhouse's Palmer to head ClearCount , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/24/2006 8 health-related startups land funds , by Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/22/2006 Precision Therapeutics lands $20M in venture capital , by Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 2/17/2006 NanoDynamics Taps Leading Chemists for Pittsburgh-Based ND Life Sciences Operation , by , Genetic Engineering News, 2/2/2006 Connelly joins medSage , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/16/2006 Swedish firm buys Nurel , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/23/2005 Aethon Lands $11 Million in Latest VC Deal , by , Yahoo! Finance, 11/22/2005 Seeking growth, Respironics realigns divisions , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/4/2005 Mylan To Receive $23 Million , by , BioSpace Beat, 11/4/2005 Renal to sell home dialysis kit in Europe , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/2/2005 NanoDynamics opens Pittsburgh office , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/5/2005 CardiacAssist gets assist from NIH , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/5/2005 Australian biotech firm likes looks of Pittsburgh , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/03/2005 Medrad gets Canadian deal , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/3/2005 Revivicor sells regenerative therapy rights , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/20/2005 Knopp Neurosciences Secures License to Diagnostic Biomarkers of ALS , by , PRNewswire, 9/7/2005 Immunetrics and Lilly to Apply in Silico Modeling Technology to Trial Design , by , PRNewswire, 9/7/2005 Pitt grants ALS test license to spinoff , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/7/2005 PA Early Stage Partners Forms Azidex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. With Seed Investment , by , biospace.com, 9/7/2005 Growing Vivisimo scouring region for workers , by Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/13/2005 Tepper Grad's Startup to Commercialize Noninvasive Medical Diagnostic Device for Brain Disorders and Injuries , by , Carnegie Mellon Today, 8/11/2005 Renal Solutions readies product for market , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/5/2005 RedPath expansion gets state funding , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/26/2005 Geisinger Health System Adopts the Ardais System for Biospecimen Management , by , PharmaLive, 7/6/2005 Renal Solutions to test home dialysis kit , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 6/22/2005 Cellumen gets funding , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 6/21/2005 Bits & Bytes: Venture capital firm close to another deal , by Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6/18/2005 NanoDynamics growing in Buffalo, Pittsburgh , by Tracey Durry, Buffalo Business First, 6/16/2005 PA DCED Secretary Announces Five Economic Development and Technology Investment Projects That Will Create Nearly 500 Biosciences Jobs in Pennsylvania , by , Yahoo Finance, 6/13/2005 Immunetrics Inc. Secures Biomarker Collaboration With University of Cologne and A Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Vienna , by , Yahoo Finance, 6/6/2005 Holding out hope: Start-up's research may offer way to diagnose and treat earlier debilitating Lou Gehrig's disease , by Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6/1/2005 Respironics buys Oregon firm for $10.5 million , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/5/2005 .Renal Solutions lands $16.5M , by Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/7/2005 Immunetrics Technology Accelerates Development of University of Pittsburgh Animal Model , by , dBusiness News Pittsburgh, 2/23/2005 KeyBay gets Innovation seed money , by Jennifer Curry, Pittsburgh Business Times, 2/3/2005 Startups find funding universal challenge , by , MSNBC, 12/31/2004 Medical device firm gets funding , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 12/6/2004 ClearCount Medical Solutions Receives Just Under $300,000 in Pre-seed Funding (Scroll Down) , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/6/2004 Cellomics and BD Sign License Agreement to Further Expand Availability of High Content Screening , by , PharmaLive.com, 11/9/2004 PA Early Stage closes on third venture fund , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/5/2004 BioCrystal and Crystalplex in Broad Cross-Licensing Pact , by , Yahoo Finance, 11/1/2004 New CEO tabbed for medSage , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/27/2004 RheoGene nabs grant worth $2M , by John George, Philadelphia Business Journal, 10/18/2004 New tenant at Greenhouse , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/12/2004 Life Sciences Greenhouse signs new tenant , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/11/2004 INRange Systems may relocate to city , by Lynne Glover, Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/1/2004 Business news briefs (scroll down) , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/18/2004 Revivicor moves into PLSG Incubator , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/2/2004 Crystalplex 'graduates' (scroll down) , by , Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 7/7/2004 Crystalplex 'graduates' from PLSG Incubator , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/7/2004 Cellomics Founder Forms Cellumen, Inc. to Understand Cell Functions: Cellumen is the Newest Tenant in PLSG Incubator , by , Bionity.com, 6/16/2004 Cellomics founders form Cellumen , by Michael Yeomans, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 6/15/2004 Another start-up in the city (*scroll down) , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6/15/2004 Pittsburgh has a new biotech: Cellumen , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 6/14/2004 Cellomics, Inc. Founder Forms Cellumen, Inc. To Understand Cell Functions: Cellumen Is The Newest Tenant In PLSG Incubator , by , BioSpace, 6/14/2004 Agentase wins Army award , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/27/2004 Respironics names board member , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/27/2004 BodyMedia partners with U of Maryland on genetic technology , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/26/2004 Vivisimo snags six biopharma clients , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/26/2004 Tech firm lands funding , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/25/2004 Plextronics secures $3.4 million in funding , by , Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , 5/25/2004 Plextronics lands $3.4 million , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/24/2004 Respironics offers to buy London company , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/21/2004 Medical firm gets big boost , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/29/2004 Infant heart-assist device in works , by Karen Roebuck, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4/29/2004 Five teams working on pumps for kids' hearts , by Byron Spice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/29/2004 Crystalplex gets $100,000 , by , Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , 4/27/2004 PLSG affiliate invests in Crystalplex , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/26/2004 Agentase wins federal stamp of approval , by Christopher Davis, Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/26/2004 Renal Solutions adds $5 million investment , by Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/23/2004 Zoll Medical could buy Lifecor , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/22/2004 PBDC invests in Agentase , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/13/2004 Start-ups in biotech make pitches to financiers , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/1/2004 TissueInformatics sale to Paradigm closes , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/12/2004 Medrad Inc. honored with Malcolm Baldrige Award , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/10/2004 Bush bestows a Baldridge quality award on Medrad , by Dave Copeland, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 3/10/2004 Medrad gets its Baldrige award , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/9/2004 Respironics buys Caradyne in Ireland , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/4/2004 Verimetra lands Greenhouse funding , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 2/27/2004 UPMC 'acquires' RheoGene assets , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 2/17/2004 Biotech firm ponders deal, sources say , by Christopher Davis and Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/23/2004 McKesson buys Moore Medical for $40M , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/22/2004 Respironics beats Street, ups '04 outlook , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/22/2004 Medical technology holds MERIT , by Brandon Keat, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , 1/21/2004 University Of Pittsburgh Imaging Agent Study Suggests Breakthrough In Alzheimer's Research , by , Science Daily, 1/21/2004 Invivodata opens an office in London , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/21/2004 Respironics: Apria contract good thru '04 , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 1/19/2004 A robotic nurse, glasses that allow a surgeon to look through flesh and see bones, and a tiny surgical tool that crawls across the heart. , by , New Castle News, 1/19/2004 Cellomics raises $5.3M in new funding , by , Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 1/13/2004 Cancer institute adds heart health program , by Randy Griffith, Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, 1/13/2004 Time of struggle may end for LaunchCyte, which grows biotech ventures , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/8/2004 Cranberry firm is pioneer in computer-guided cancer treatment , by Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/4/2004 Respironics grows, prospers, developing products to help people sleep better , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/18/2003 Defense Department to test Agentase nerve agent sensors , by Christopher Davis, Pittsburgh Business Times, 12/15/2003 Medrad CEO to lead United Way's Impact Fund , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 12/12/2003 Former Pfizer exec on TissueInformatics board , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 12/3/2003 Editorial: Medrad's mission / A Pittsburgh company in pursuit of excellence , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/2/2003 Medrad wins prestigious Malcolm Baldrige award , by Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/26/2003 Medrad Inc. wins coveted award for excellence , by Dave Copeland, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 11/26/2003 Herberman named to biotech assoc. board , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/26/2003 Medrad says it wins Baldrige Award , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/25/2003 BodyMedia awarded 'broad' patent , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 11/19/2003 Nomos takeover valued at $56 million , by Michael Yeomans, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 10/28/2003 Calif. company to buy NOMOS for $56M , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/28/2003 MedSource adding facility in Wash. County , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/23/2003 Device Helps Jog Patients' Memories , by Dr. Paul Nemiroff, KDKA-TV, 10/13/2003 Invivodata targets international growth , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/7/2003 New Respironics CEO touts R&D pipeline , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/3/2003 Respironics revamps staff, names new CEO , by C.M. Mortimer, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 10/3/2003 Respironics shuffles top management , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 10/2/2003 Loans help Neuro Kinetics meet demand , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/26/2003 Health firm closes on $15 million , by Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/12/2003 Also in business ... (Invivodata) , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/11/2003 Invivodata raises $3.7M in new funding , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/10/2003 Healthy Medrad expanding more , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/05/2003 MedTech lines up $1M in revenue , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/27/2003 TEI sees promotional capabilities as a moneymaker , by Christopher Davis, Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/25/2003 Respironics' founder joins Renal Solutions' board , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/21/2003 Hazelwood biotech firm back in growth mode, founder says , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/13/2003 Cellomics taps biotech veteran for top post , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/12/2003 Cellomics hires new top exec , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/11/2003 Renal Solutions moving engineering unit from Rochester , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/7/2003 Local bioengineers want to build patch, blood vessels for heart , by Anita Srikameswaran, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/5/2003 BodyMedia closes $4M funding round , by Maria Guzzo, Pittsburgh Business Times, 8/5/2003 Respironics' net climbs 21% on acquisitions, overseas sales , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/24/2003 Greenhouse lands CEO for Mobile Aspects , by Christopher Davis, Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/11/2003 TissueInformatics receives database patent , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 7/9/2003 Grant helps BodyMedia develop diabetes monitoring , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 6/11/2003 IGate ventures into life sciences , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , 5/28/2003 iGate buys UPMC's clinical research unit , by , Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , 5/28/2003 LaunchCyte moving to Greenhouse HQ in Hazelwood , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/27/2003 Life sciences start-up gets $3M to market company , by Michael Yeomans, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 5/24/2003 Flourous Technologies completes financing round , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/23/2003 NOMOS introduces technology , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/20/2003 State biotech group to open Pittsburgh office , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/16/2003 Cancer Institute director joins Immunetrics board , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/13/2003 In a down economy, Respironics' numbers continue to rise , by Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/12/2003 Demegen files to end SEC registration , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/6/2003 How Renal Solutions found $15 million at the Three Rivers Venture Fair , by Patty Tascarella, Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/28/2003 Biotech start-up taps CEO, expanding here , by , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/25/2003 Crystalplex relocating to Pittsburgh , by Lou Ransom, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4/25/2003 Crystalplex names CEO, plans to move Atlanta units , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/24/2003 Respironics 3Q sales pass $160 million , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/24/2003 Contact lens could measure glucose for diabetics , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/14/2003 Respironics moving Connecticut operations to California , by , Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/11/2003 Respironics buys product line from SpectRx , by Pittsburgh Business Times, Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/7/2003 Cleveland-based biotech company ponders local sites for headquarters , by Christopher Davis , Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/7/2003 Medrad expects sales, job gains to continue , by Pamela Gaynor, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 3/6/2003 Medrad 2002 sales up 17 percent , by Pittsburgh Business Times, Pittsburgh Business Times, 3/5/2003 TissueInformatics' new business (scroll down) , by Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 2/25/2003 BodyMedia partners with Roche Diagnostics , by , Pittsburgh Business times, 2/25/2003
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