Media coverage of portfolio companies and philanthropic activities
2008-11-03
Akamai Completes Acquisition of acerno
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced it has completed its acquisition of acerno, a privately held company based in New York, NY.Akamai announced a definitive agreement on October 21, 2008..
2008-11-02
世界最大靈長類實驗基地落戶呈貢
由香港晨興集團投資、世界規模最大的靈長類研發和安全評價實驗基地——昆明國際生物醫藥發展中心項目昨日正式落戶呈貢新城市。領導仇和、李培山、田雲翔、趙德光、何波以及省市相關部門負責人出席了開業慶典儀式..
2008-10-21
Akamai Introduces Advertising Decision Solutions; Announces Agreement to Acquire acerno
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and acerno announced today that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire acerno in a merger transaction...
2008-09-17
Inimex Pharmaceuticals Honored Among This Year's Most Promising Private Technology Ventures in Canada
Inimex Pharmaceuticals was named as an award winner at the second annual "Red Herring Top 50 Canada" awards, September 15 to 17, 2008 at the Red Herring Canada Conference in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, honoring this year’s most promising...
2008-08-25
三百萬上海人 靠它找路過生活
未來一年，中國手機市場的激戰將會從傳統熟悉的品牌，移轉到iPhone和Google手機之爭。而Google手機更是在具備Google地圖強大功能支援下，為各方看好。為什麼「地圖」會變成炙手可熱？...
2008-08-18
MicuRx Pharmaceuticals Selects Next-Generation Antibiotic Candidate Targeting MRSA and Expands Operation in China
MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation antibiotics, today announced the nomination of MRX- I as its first preclinical development candidate...
2008-08-07
HD Biosciences Announces Completion of Series A Financing
HD Biosciences Inc., a China-based biology contract research organization (CRO) today announced the closing of its Series A financing. The current round was co-led by Morningside Venture and Lilly Asian Ventures and syndicated with Pfizer Venture Investments...
2008-07-30
NYSE Arca Welcomes China Distance Education Holdings Ltd.
NYSE Arca, NYSE Euronext’s fully electronic market for emerging issuers, today welcomed its first Chinese initial public offering, China Distance Education Holdings, a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education...
2008-07-17
ThingMagic Closes $9.5 Million in Additional Funding
ThingMagic, a developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, has secured an additional $9.5 million in funding from existing investors including Tudor Ventures, The Exxel Group, Morningside Technology Ventures and .406 Ventures...
2008-06-10
Burnaby company gets money for drug trials; Immune system booster seen as way to help beat superbugs resistant to antibiotics
Imagine your own body mustering its defences to successfully fight off a superbug that is resistant to antibiotics. That's the dream of Burnaby's Inimex Pharmaceuticals, one that has already been proven in animal studies and now has the backing of a major...
2008-06-08
Critical Biologics Commences Clinical Testing of Solinex
Critical Biologics Corporation (CBC) announced the successful enrollment of thefirst four patients in its "first-in-man" clinical trial for Solinex(TM), an intravenous formulation of recombinant human plasma gelsolin (rhu-pGSN). The trial is...
2008-06-02
Inimex Raises US $22 Million in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Inimex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is pleased to announce the closing of a US $22 Million Series B venture financing. Leading the round was Morningside Venture Investments Ltd., joined by additional new investors Roche Venture Fund...
2008-05-22
Plastic Logic Start Building New Display Production Site in Dresden
Plastic Logic will start production this fall of 10.7- inch flexible electrophoretic displays at its Dresden, Germany, plant, with annual capacity for a million units, said Tim Von Werne, research and development manager..
2008-04-17
ThingMagic and InnerWireless Integrate Active/Passive RFID for Unified Asset Visibility, Asset Tracking and Document Management
ThingMagic, Inc., the leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, and InnerWireless, Inc., the premier provider of converged wireless solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to develop and market...
2008-03-26
中国领先的社区软件与服务提供商“康盛创想（Comsenz）”宣布新一轮融资成功
康盛创想（ComsenzInc.）日前正式披露，公司已于2007年7月完成了第二轮融资。本轮的投资者为晨兴创投（Morningside Ventures），红杉资本（Sequoia Capital）和谷歌（Google）。其中红杉资本中国基金也是康盛创想的首轮投资者...
2008-03-20
Online Bidding Site To Silence Silent Auctions
E-commerce site cMarket expects to host more than 3,000 online fund-raising events for the likes of the United Way and the Muscular Dystrophy Association this year. For many schools and other nonprofit organizations, silent auctions represent a necessary...
2008-03-13
Nanosys Receives ISO 9001:2000 Certification
Nanosys, Inc. announced today that the company has received ISO 9001:2000 certification for their quality management system. The certification was received from TUV Rheinland of North America, a global leader in independent testing...
2008-02-22
Nanosys and Sharp Expand Development Pact for Nanotechnology-Enabled Products
Nanosys announced the expansion and extension of its collaborative agreement with Sharp, of Osaka, Japan, for the development of nanostructured device technologies for use in large area electronics products incorporating Nanosys' proprietary...
2008-02-19
曾培炎在海南調研指出推進結構調整深化改革開放促進海南經濟又好又快發展
國務院副總理曾培炎近日到海南調研，考察了生物、通信、汽車等高技術項目和製造企業，聽取海南省及洋浦經濟開發區工作匯報。他指出，沿海地區要深入貫徹落實科學發展觀，加快轉變經濟發展方式，加大結構調整力度...
2008-02-06
Muscular Dystrophy Association Partners with cMarket to Reach More Donors and Raise More Funds for Medical Research
cMarket today announced that it has been chosen by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) as its preferred partner for online fundraising auctions. cMarket is the leading online auction platform for schools and nonprofit organizations engaged in...
ThingMagic Partners with Ford Motor Company and DeWALT to Provide First RFID Enabled Trucks
ThingMagic, Inc., the leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, today announced a partnership with DEWALT and Ford Motor Company to equip 2009 Ford F-150, F-Series Super Duty pickups and E-Series vans with an embedded...
2008-01-23
New Techniques Tackle Rotator-Cuff Injuries
When it comes to joint injuries, rotator cuffs are the repeat offenders. Surgery can fix the debilitating shoulder problem, but as many as half of patients retear their rotator cuff, often because of overzealous activity or the weakened quality of their...
2008-01-16
Silent Auctions are Fast Losing Ground to Online Fundraising Auctions
Much as "video killed the radio star" with the advent of MTV, the Internet is today's catalyst for the death of the silent fundraising auction, as nonprofits eschew hours of volunteer organizing, venue procurement and hors d'oeuvre selection in favor of the web-based host...
2007-12-18
第四屆世界華人數學家大會杭州召開,七數學家獲「華人菲爾茲獎
第四屆世界華人數學家大會(簡稱ICCM)十七日在杭州召開，來自世界各地的一千二百多位華人數學家以及三十餘名世界頂級非華裔科學家共同出席盛會，其中七位傑出華人數學家榮獲有「華人菲爾茲獎」之稱的晨興數學獎。..
2007-12-16
MetaCure(TM) Launches Investigational Study of Gastric Stimulator for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Who are Overweight
MetaCure Limited, announced that it began patient enrollment in a national diabetes clinical trial of its TANTALUS(R) System, an investigational device being tested in patients with type 2 diabetes who are overweight. The study is being conducted in up to 30 sites..
2007-12-01
Leveraging The Body's Healing Ability With Silk
Serica Technologies relies on bioengineering and textile engineering to develop and customize its silk fibroin-based scaffolds and grafts to optimize their function. Textile materials and textile engineering are increasingly valued in the biotechnology field, as more...
2007-10-19
Harvard Licensing Deal Reflects Its 'Public Mission'
Harvard University, one of the originators of a statement of how institutions can serve the public good while commercializing technology, has taken the message to heart. A deal that the university has just signed for licensing a new vaccine technology...
2007-10-02
CellCentric receives funding from Takeda Research Investment, Inc.
CellCentric, the biotechnology company unlocking epigenetic control mechanisms, has secured further financing to advance its epigenetic-related discovery and development activities. The funding will be used to increase target validation...
2007-07-26
51hejia.com Gets a Second Venture Investment
51hejia.com Inc., a newly established Web site with focus on China's home furniture, building materials, and ornament, obtains a second investment from two Asian venture capital investors, JAFCO Asia and Morningside Ventures, people close to...
2007-07-16
Serica scientists receive national award for first pre-clinical study showing definitive evidence of ACL regeneration
Serica Technologies, Inc., a growth-stage medical device company developing silk-based biomaterial platforms for tissue regeneration, today announced that its scientists received the Cabaud Memorial Award from the American Orthopedic Society...
2007-07-12
Making Anti-Infectives Better Is The Springboard For MicuRx
One of the positive side effects of consolidation is that mergers and acquisitions often free senior level executives to found the next generation of biotech start-ups. Much of San Diego’s biotech industry can trace its roots back to the entrepreneurs who...
2007-07-05
Morningside-CAS Kunming Biology Summer Course – 2007, Stem Cells, Development and Evolution(In Chinese)
2007-05-15
ImmunoVac, Inc. announces an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Baylor College of Medicine for a novel immunotherapy technology
ImmunoVac, Inc., is pleased to announce that it has entered into a license agreement with Baylor College of Medicine for the exclusive, worldwide rights to novel immunotherapy technologies developed in the laboratory of Dr. Si-Yi Chen, ...
2007-03-27
ViOptix Names Larry C. Heaton President, CEO and Chairman
ViOptix Inc. announced today that Larry C. Heaton II has joined the Company as its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Heaton is a 25-year veteran of the healthcare and medical device industry. Most recently, from 2003 ...
2007-03-23
CDEL，China’s leading distance education services provider accept investment from Morningside and Orchid Asia
China Distance Education Limited (CDEL), Morningside Ventures (Morningside) and Orchid Asia Group Management Limited (Orchid Asia) jointly announced that Morningside and Orchid Asia have invested in CDEL for its business expansion in China...
2007-03-20
Motorola China selects MOBILESCOPE mMAP solution to distribute wireless content
Mobile Scope, a division of the In Fusio Group, announced that Motorola China has launched MOTOFUN, a digital shop based on mMAP solution: mMap comes with a java application and a server-side management solution that enables Motorola to...
2007-03-12
Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that.
It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country brimming with confidence, a Chinese-born Harvard mathematician figured this was the time to ask China to host another global event held every four years. Shing-Tung Yau and his...
2007-02-08
Critical Biologics Announces Series A Financing
Critical Biologics Corporation (CBC), a private company, today announced it has closed a Series ‘A’ financing with a $7 million investment from
Morningside Ventures. The funds will enable CBC to advance its lead recombinant human plasma ...
Serica Technologies Closes $12 Million in Series C Funding
Serica Technologies Inc., a medical device company developing a silk-based biomaterial platform for connective tissue repair, today announced it has received $12 million in a Series C financing. New investor Prism VentureWorks co-led the round ...
2007-01-05
Xunlei Completes Investment Led by Google and Ceyuan Ventures (In Chinese)
Xunlei Networking Technologies (“Xunlei” or “The Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of its Series B fundraising led by Ceyuan Ventures, followed by Google Corporation and Fidelity Ventures. Existing investors Morningside and IDG Ventures also ...
2007-01-03
Plastic Logic raises $100 million to enable the first “take anywhere, read anywhere” electronic reader products
Plastic Logic announced today that it will build the first factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products. It will utilize ...
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