Brian Gormley
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal.
Brian Gormley is a Special Writer covering life sciences for Dow Jones VentureWire. He joined Dow Jones in 2004.
Brian Gormley is a Special Writer covering life sciences for Dow Jones VentureWire. He joined Dow Jones in 2004.
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Tull Investment Group led the round, which included Breyer Capital, Hashtag One, March Capital Partners, Slow Ventures and Qualcomm Inc. Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs. Heal has raised $43.5 million in seed and Series A funding.
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Enable Injections Inc., which has developed a wearable product for injecting biological drugs, said it has closed a $30 million Series A round led by ORI Healthcare Fund.
Venture capital floods into companies trying to use microbiome science to achieve breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture and other fields.
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Venture investors are betting that a digital smoking-cessation system will help smokers who have tried everything to finally quit.
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Larry Bock became a leading biotechnology investor and entrepreneur. He also founded the USA Science and Engineering Festival, a circus-like event to inspire young people to explore careers in those fields. He died July 6 of pancreatic cancer at 56.
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Small companies developing lower-cost copies of expensive biotechnology drugs already faced a tough road launching their products. A new court ruling could make that journey even tougher, and longer.
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OrbiMed Advisors, which sold Israeli holding cCAM Biotherapeutics to Merck & Co. last year for $605 million, will use the vehicle to make early- to later-stage investments in drug, diagnostic, medical-device and digital-health businesses.
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Venture capitalists are investing $75 million to launch Forty Seven Inc., a startup out of Stanford University that has joined a race to defeat cancer by engaging the immune system in the fight against tumors.
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Agilent is suing Twist Bioscience, alleging that a former employee is using trade secrets and confidential information, according to complaint filed Wednesday.
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Dow Jones analyzed U.S. health-care venture capital investment across 17 areas of the human body to determine which markets are attracting the most interest.
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Shares of ProNAi Therapeutics and Chiasma rose quickly following the companies’ initial public offerings Thursday, continuing a solid run of new offerings from venture-backed life sciences companies.
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U.S. medical startups raised a record $3.9 billion in venture capital in the first quarter of 2015 amid rising investor interest in biotechnology, digital health and health-care services.
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Nabriva’s drug candidate attacks bacteria’s ribosome, their protein-making machinery.
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Livongo’s system includes a glucose meter that transmits data to the cloud where they can be analyzed and monitored by the company’s diabetes educators.
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Ginkgo genetically programs microbes to produce molecules used in flavors, fragrances, cosmetics and nutritional ingredients.
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