Flagship & Portfolio Company News - 2007-2008

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05/12/2008
Flagship Managing Partner Noubar Afeyan Awarded 2008 Ellis Island Medal of Honor

05/06/2008
Mascoma Corporation Raises $61 Million in Third Round of Funding

05/02/2008
Codon Devices Achieves Milestone in Collaboration with Agrivida in Novel Protein Engineering for Biofuels

05/01/2008
GM and Mascoma Enter into Biofuels Relationship

04/30/2008
Genstruct and Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Win Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Award

04/30/2008
CoNCERT Pharmaceuticals Raises $37 Million in Series C Financing

04/29/2008
Helicos BioSciences Reports Q1 2008 Financial Results

04/28/2008
Black Duck Software Acquires Software Code Search Leader Koders

04/22/2008
Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals Raises $25 Million in Series B Financing

04/22/2008
Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals Strengthens Its Board of Directors with Industry Leaders

04/18/2008
VisEn Medical Raises $5.0 Million in Expanded Series B Financing

04/17/2008
Calling All Experienced Entrepreneurs: New England Clean Energy Council Launches Fellowship Program

04/16/2008
Codon Devices and Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Enter Into Research, Development and License Agreement

04/14/2008
VisEn Medical Launches FMT™ 2500 – Next-Generation Fluorescence Imaging System

04/09/2008
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Announces Appointment of Guy Macdonald as President and Chief Executive Officer

04/03/2008
Helicos BioSciences Announces Single Molecule DNA Sequence Data Published in Science Magazine

04/01/2008
Takeda Joins the HRP Initiative to Discover Biomarkers of High-Risk Atherosclerotic Plaque

03/31/2008
Codon Devices Secures $11 Million in Series B Financing

03/31/2008
Codon Devices and Blue Heron Biotechnology Announce Settlement of Dispute

03/19/2008
University of Colorado to Use SiCortex Cluster for Space Studies

03/05/2008
Helicos BioSciences Announces Shipment of the World's First Single Molecule DNA Sequencer

02/20/2008
Genstruct Announces New Collaboration with Pfizer in Drug Safety

02/20/2008
Acceleron Pharma Announces Global Collaboration with Celgene Corporation on ACE-011 Program for Cancer-Related Bone Loss

02/12/2008
BG Medicine and Copenhagen General Population Study Initiate Biomarker Discovery to Identify Individuals at High Risk of Heart Attack Within Four Years before Occurrence

02/11/2008
EMD launches first bead-based multiplex assays using EpiTag™ Technology from Epitome Biosystems, Inc.

02/08/2008
Helicos BioSciences Announces First Order for the Helicos™ Genetic Analysis Platform

02/08/2008
Helicos BioSciences Validates Performance of True Single Molecule Sequencing

01/24/2008
GSI Commerce to Acquire e-Dialog

01/23/2008
BG Medicine Announces Decision to Withdraw IPO

01/22/2008
First SC072 Catapult Installed at Rutgers

01/17/2008
Arbor Networks Announces Definitive Agreement To Acquire Ellacoya Networks

01/15/2008
Pervasis Therapeutics Closes Additional $9.75 Million in Financing

01/09/2008
Helicos BioSciences Announces MicroRNA Collaboration with miRNA Expert

01/09/2008
Carbon Design Systems Raises $6 Million in Venture Funding After Successful 2007

01/04/2008
Helicos BioSciences Enters into $20 Million Credit Facility with GE Healthcare Financial Services

01/03/2008
T2 Biosystems Appoints John McDonough as CEO

01/03/2008
Codon Devices Names David Smith, Vice President of Operations

01/03/2008
AVEO Pharmaceuticals Appoints Kenneth M. Bate to Board of Directors

12/20/2007
BioImage Study Seeks to Identify Individuals at High Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke 2-3 Years before Occurrence

12/19/2007
BIND Biosciences, Inc. appoints Jim Wright, PhD as Chief Scientific Officer

12/18/2007
CoNCERT Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Ronald W. Barrett to the Company's Board of Directors

12/04/2007
AVEO Pharmaceuticals and Lilly Sign Collaboration for Clinical Drug Response Project

11/29/2007
LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company, Selected by World Economic Forum as 2008 Technology Pioneer

11/27/2007
BIND Biosciences, Inc. Closes $16M Series B Financing Round

11/13/2007
Star-P earns HPCwire’s Editors’ Choice Award…again

11/13/2007
SiCortex Named Most Innovative HPC Cluster Solution by HPCwire

11/07/2007
Mascoma Corporation Acquires Celsys BioFuels, Inc.

11/07/2007
Novomer, Next-Generation Eco-Plastics Company, Secures Series A Financing from Physic Ventures and Flagship Ventures

11/07/2007
Ensemble Discovery Announces Additions to its Scientific Advisory Board

11/06/2007
SiCortex SC072 `Catapult' Provides Deskside Launching Pad for Truly Scalable Applications

11/01/2007
AVEO Pharmaceuticals Appoints David Johnston as Chief Financial Officer

10/30/2007
Acceleron Pharma Completes $31M Series C Financing

10/24/2007
Interactive Supercomputing Raises Series B Financing

10/23/2007
VisEn Medical Raises $7 Million in Series B Financing

10/23/2007
Argonne National Lab Acquires First SiCortex SC5832

10/08/2007
LS9, Inc. Secures $15 Million in Series B Funding

10/08/2007
BIND Biosciences, Inc. Awarded NIH Phase I SBIR Contract to Develop Therapeutic Targeted Nanoparticles for Prostate Cancer Therapy

10/03/2007
Helicos Promotes Steve Lombardi to President

10/02/2007
OSI Pharmaceuticals and AVEO Pharmaceuticals Enter into an Oncology Drug Discovery and Translational Research Collaboration

10/02/2007
AVEO Pharmaceuticals to Utilize Peptech’s Breakthrough Technology to “Humanise” Internal Drug Candidates

09/24/2007
Bristol-Myers Squibb to Acquire Adnexus Therapeutics

09/14/2007
World's First Human -Powered Supercomputer Conducts Complex Genomics Calculation While Running on Bicycle Power

09/12/2007
Epitome Biosystems Names Edward Machuga Vice President Sales and Marketing

09/04/2007
Kovio Raises $19.5 Million in First Closing of New Funding Round

09/04/2007
Ensemble Discovery Names Michael D. Taylor, PhD as President and Chief Executive Officer

08/27/2007
Philips Completes Acquisition of US-Based Color Kinetics, Further Strengthening Leading Position in LED Lighting Systems, Components and Technologies

08/21/2007
Adnexus Therpeutics Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering

08/21/2007
Adnexus Therapeutics Announces Appointment of Timothy J. Rink, MD, ScD to Its Board of Directors

08/15/2007
Flagship Ventures’ David Berry Named Technology Review’s Top Young Innovator

08/15/2007
LS9 Co-founder Named Innovator of the Year in Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 List of Top Young Innovators

08/15/2007
Technology Review Unveils the 2007 TR35 Humanitarian and Innovator of the Year

08/15/2007
Technology Review Reveals the 2007 TR35 List of the 35 Top Young Innovators Under 35

08/09/2007
Adnexus Therapeutics Raises $15.5 Million in Series C Funding

08/08/2007
LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company™, Adds Charles Cooney to Board of Directors

08/07/2007
Epitome Biosystems Launches Ti-Tyr™ Profiling Chips for Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Cellular Events

08/06/2007
BG Medicine Files US Registration Statement with SEC in Support of Euronext Amsterdam IPO

08/02/2007
Mascoma Corporation Adds Jim Schumacher as Vice President, Business Development

08/01/2007
Codon Devices and Agrivida Enter into Development Agreement for Biofuel Applications

07/30/2007
Ensemble Discovery and Roche Initiate Research Collaboration to Apply New Diagnostic Technology to Optimize Cancer Therapy

07/30/2007
Robert Walsh Appointed President of LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company™

07/25/2007
SiCortex Ramps up with $10 Million in Venture Debt

07/24/2007
Ze-gen, Inc. Hosts Ribbon Cutting at Demonstration Facility in New Bedford

07/19/2007
Granholm Says New Ethanol Plant to Put Michigan First in Race to Turn "Wood to Wheels"

07/17/2007
Mascoma Corporation Appoints T. Jack Huggins to Board of Directors

07/16/2007
Ze-gen, Inc. Secures $4.5 Million in Series A Funding from Flagship Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners

07/11/2007
VisEn Medical Names John Kleijne as Vice President Commercialization and Partnerships, Europe

07/11/2007
Adnexus Therapeutics Appoints Martin Freed, MD as Chief Medical Officer

07/11/2007
Alvine Pharmaceuticals Appoints Abhay Joshi, Ph.D. to President and CEO

07/10/2007
Epitome Biosystems Initiates Second Partnership with EMD Chemicals for Commercial Products

07/09/2007
Tira Wireless Raises $5 Million in Series D Financing

06/25/2007
Helicos BioSciences Announces Commencement of Commercial Manufacturing

06/20/2007
Mascoma Corporation Names James Flatt Senior Vice President of Research and Development

06/20/2007
VisEn Medical Announces Jerry Williamson as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

06/19/2007
Color Kinetics Announces Acquisition by Philips

06/19/2007
Helicos BioSciences Strengthens Executive Management Team in Preparation for Commercial Launch

06/18/2007
AVEO Pharmaceuticals CEO Tuan Ha-Ngoc Receives Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award

06/18/2007
Renewable Petroleum Company LS9 Announces Distinguished Hire

06/06/2007
Building Better Biofuels: Startup LS9 is developing microbes that produce hydrocarbons

06/04/2007
Mascoma Corporation Adds Former Senator Tom Daschle to Board of Directors

05/24/2007
Helicos Biosciences Prices Initial Public Offering

05/23/2007
BG Medicine Acquires Exclusive Rights to Biomarkers of Congestive Heart Failure from ACS Biomarker

05/16/2007
BG Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York Announce Collaboration on Biomarker Discovery for MS Disease Activity and Drug Response

05/09/2007
BG Medicine Forms Research Collaboration with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to Discover Serum Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Treatment Response

05/08/2007
Five Flagship Ventures Portfolio Companies Named Winners of Red Herring 100 Awards for 2007

05/03/2007
AVEO Pharmaceuticals Closes $53 Million in Series D Funding

05/02/2007
Mascoma Honored with Red Herring 100 Selection

05/02/2007
Codon Devices Named to Red Herring 100

05/02/2007
Interactive Supercomputing a Red Herring 100 winner

05/02/2007
i2 Acquires Blue Agave Software, Inc.

04/16/2007
e-Dialog Recognized as One of Massachusetts' Fastest Growing Private Companies

04/17/2007
Eisai Announces Completion of Acquisition of Morphotek

04/13/2007
TransMedics, Inc., Closes $25.5 Million in Series D Funding

04/04/2007
AVEO Enters into Worldwide License and Development Agreement with Schering-Plough for AV-299, AVEO’s Novel Anti-HGF Antibody

04/03/2007
Lilly Announces Completion of Hypnion Acquisition

04/03/2007
TA Associates Completes $175 Million Buyout of Alere Medical

04/03/2007
Netuitive Secures $8 Million in Financing to Accelerate Market Expansion

04/02/2007
Mascoma Co-Founder Dr. Lee Lynd Named Recipient of Inaugural Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

03/30/2007
Acceleron Pharma Appoints Robert Steininger as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing

03/28/2007
Mascoma Secures $4.9MM Funding from U.S. Department of Energy

03/26/2007
Genstruct Appoints VP of Scientific Research

03/22/2007
Eisai To Acquire Morphotek

03/21/2007
Codon Devices Names Daniel Geffken as Chief Financial Officer

03/19/2007
Mascoma Corporation Names Ethanol Executive Bruce A. Jamerson as Chief Executive Officer

03/19/2007
Pervasis Therapeutics Launches Enrollment for Two Phase II Clinical Trials for Vascugel™

03/13/2007
Polatis Expands Worldwide Sales Force

03/12/2007
Renewable Petroleum Company LS9 Announces Series A Funding and Scientific Advisory Board Members

03/06/2007
VisEn Medical Announces Initiative with Merck to Develop Molecular Imaging Agents for Key Areas in Cardiovascular Disease

03/05/2007
Lilly Announces Acquisition of Hypnion

03/02/2007
Royal Nedalco Signs Agreement to License Technology to Mascoma for Lignocellulosic Ethanol

03/01/2007
Helicos BioSciences Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering of Common Stock

02/27/2007
Retailers Invited to Participate in IntelliVid's Proof-of-Value Program to Test Its Video Analytics Solution

02/26/2007
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Adnexus Therapeutics Announce Collaboration to Develop and Commercialize Innovative Oncology Compounds

02/21/2007
Critical Path Liver Toxicity Biomarker Study to Commence with Participation from Seven Pharmaceutical Companies

02/14/2007
LS9 Launched to Create Renewable Petroleum(TM) Biofuels

02/14/2007
Black Duck Software Closes $12 Million in Third Round Financing

02/13/2007
Flagship Highlighted in CNBC Article on Green Technology

02/13/2007
Epitome Biosystems Expands Senior Management Team

02/12/2007
Industry Veteran Erik Wallden Joins VisEn Medical Board of Directors

02/09/2007
Helicos BioSciences Announces a Novel Homopolymer Solution for True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS™)

02/02/2007
Adnexus Therapeutics Announces Presentation of Interim Phase I Results for CT-322, First Adnectin Therapeutic in Humans

01/31/2007
Epitome Biosystems Completes Development of Multiplex Assays for EMD Biosciences Inc.

01/30/2007
BG Medicine Announces Major Collaborative Research Effort to Prevent Heart Attack & Stroke

01/09/2007
Affinity Express Management Team and LiveIt Acquire Outsourced Graphic and Design Services Leader

01/05/2007
Hypnion Announces Positive and Robust Phase II Results for Novel Sleep Drug - HY10275

01/04/2007
AVEO acquires Clinical Stage Anti-Cancer Compound from Kirin






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