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May 7, 2013
Aileron Therapeutics Successfully Completes First-Ever Stapled Peptide Clinical Trial

May 7, 2013
PathoGenetix Advances Commercialization of New RESOLUTION Microbial Genotyping System for Rapid Bacterial Serotyping and Strain Typing

April 25, 2013
PathoGenetix and FDA to Evaluate Bacterial Identification System for
Use in FDA Public Health and Food Safety Efforts

April 9, 2013
IlluminOss Medical Names Dirk Kuyper as Chief Executive Officer

March 8, 2013
Technology Today TV Interviews Lantos CEO Jeffrey Leathe

March 5, 2013
Saladax Biomedical Receives $22.4 Million Strategic Equity Investment From Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical

February 12, 2013
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

January 31, 2013: Nature
Careers - Better connected

January 30, 2013
Monsanto Acquires Select Assets of Agradis, Inc. to Support Work in Agricultural Biologicals

January 14, 2013
Aileron gets $12M to advance growth-hormone inducing drug candidate to clinic

December 5, 2012
PathoGenetix Names Ann Merrifield as Chief Executive Officer and Prepares to Launch Unique Bacterial Identification Technology

November 13, 2012
Activate Networks closes $10m Series B Financing Round led by Reed Elsevier Ventures, Excel Venture Management, and Premier healthcare alliance

November 1, 2012: Time
25 Free Android Apps to Get You Started

October 22, 2012
Cleveland HeartLab announces $14.7 million financing

September 24, 2012
McKesson to Acquire MedVentive

August, 2012: Worth Magazine
CHL Inflammation Panel Featured in Worth Magazine

June 7, 2012: MedCity News
Cleveland HeartLab named Ohio Venture Association’s venture of the year

May 30, 2012: The New York Times
Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World

May 12, 2012: The Economist
The path of least resistance

May 3, 2012: WREG Memphis
Heart Test Developer

May 1, 2012: The Wall Street Journal
Pitting Employees Against Each Other...for Health

March 1, 2011
Agilent Technologies Acquires BIOCIUS Life Sciences, Developer of the RapidFire(tm) High-Throughput Drug-Screening Technology

November 23, 2010:  Entrepreneur Magazine

Prevention for the People

October 27, 2010:  Xconomy Boston
MedNetworks, Co-Founded by Harvard’s Nicholas Christakis, Aims to Tap Healthcare’s Hidden Social Networks

September 18, 2010:  The New York Times
Better Health, With a Little Help From Our Friends

September 15, 2010:  FierceBiotech

FierceBiotech's 2010 Fierce 15

September 15, 2010:  Xconomy Boston

Tetraphase Shows What the $45M Was All About at Big Antibiotics Conference

September 4, 2010: The New York Times

J. Craig Venter’s Corporate Strategy? The Scientific Method

August 25, 2010

Exclusive Partnership between Healthways, MedNetworks Utilizes Power of Social Networks to Improve Health, Well-Being

August 24, 2010

Roche and Aileron Enter Multi-target Alliance to Develop Stapled Peptide Drugs for Diseases across Multiple Therapeutic Areas

August 24, 2010

Roche Backs New Method for Drug Delivery to Cells

June 21, 2010
Saladax Biomedical Signs Deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb
to Develop Clinical Diagnostics

June 1, 2010
Tetraphase Closes $45 Million Series C Financing

May 25, 2010:  The Huffington Post
Move your App, Jaime Oliver + Android + Snaptic Gets Developers In Motion

May 20, 2010

First  Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell Research Funding from Synthetic Genomics

May 19, 2010
Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell

November 10, 2009
Life Technologies Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire BioTrove

November 10, 2009

BioTrove Inc. Announces Formation of Subsidiary

July 29, 2009
Dormir, Inc. Completes $12M Series A Financing

July 16, 2009

MedVentive Secures $7.25M Funding Led by Excel Venture Management and HLM Partners

July 7, 2009

Excel Venture Management Launches $125 Million Debut Life Sciences Fund

June 8, 2009: XConomy Boston
Aileron Snags $40M From Quartet of Pharma Giants to Develop New Class of Drugs

April 22, 2009:  Dow Jones Venture Wire

BioTrove Locks Up Series C For Profitability

August 27, 2008:  Forbes.com

In Pictures:  Seven Technologies That Could Change Health Care

EVM in the News

May 31, 2012: The Atlantic
Medicine's Missing Measure

March 10, 2011:  The Economist
The new overlords: Man and technology are evolving together in radical new ways

February 6, 2011:  CNN
Are we taking evolution into our own hands?

January 26, 2011:  TED.com

TED e-book co-authored by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans

January 5, 2011:  TED Blog
Meet TED2011's guest curators: Juan Enriquez and Bill Gates

August 9, 2010:  PR Newswire
Introducing MedNetworks: New Venture Based on Social Network Analytic Technology Developed at Harvard University

January 28, 2010:  The Street.Com

Investors Spurn Clean-Tech Funding

January 13, 2010: XConomy|Boston

Excel Venture Management, Starting With Clean Slate, Shows Early

October 13, 2009:  The Boston Globe
Cautious investors cool to venture capital firms

February 2009:  Juan Enriquez: TED Conference

Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis

October 2008: Juan Enriquez: Pop! Tech '08
Dialogue on the Global Economic Crisis

October 1, 2008: Boston Globe
What about austerity?

October 2, 2007: The Wall Street Journal

The Future of Bioenergy