This Week’s Biotech Highlights

No post-High Holiday edition of the week in biotech would be complete without some repentance and some new beginnings:

• Cardiome seemed to regret ever getting into R&D and is looking for external funding for one of its pipeline products.
• A new start in Canada for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which registered as a tax-exempt charity in Canada and will hopefully bring its commercialization-oriented approach to funding here as well.
• Regrets for MDS as it moves a step closer to divesting another business — this time its analytical technologies business, but there’s more to come.
• A new lease license on life for Matrix Technologies’ artificial intelligence platform, which ethica Clinical Research will use to try to make its clinical trials more effective.
• Finally, I’ll have some repentance coming my way for disagreeing with Merck’s head of strategy, who thinks personalized medicine “is a game of the future and always will be.“

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