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Scancell appointed Sath Nirmalananthan as CFO

Flagship Pioneering appointed Jason Gardner as CEO

Resolution Therapeutics appointed Amir Hefni as CEO

NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals appointed Hyung Heon “HH” Kim as CEO

Mirati Therapeutics appointed Charles Baum as CEO

Vivoryon Therapeutics appointed Frank Weber as CEO

Kytopen appointed Michael Chiu as CEO

Processa Pharmaceuticals appointed George Ng as CEO

TheracosBio appointed Brian Connelly as CEO

AI Proteins appointed Noah Beerman as CEO

Sitryx appointed Carrie Cook as CBO

Company Name	Amount Raised	Type of Fundraise	Country	August 2023
Private company financings
Solu Therapeutics	$31 million	Seed	US	1 August
Axuall	$7 million	Seed	US	2 August
Tyto Care	$49 million	Growth Funding	US	3 August
FIGUR8	$25 million	Series A-1	US	8 August
CG Oncology	$105 million	Crossover	US	9 August
Georgiamune	$75 million	Series A	US	9 August
Alltrna	$109 million	Series B	US	9 August
ADARx Pharmaceuticals	$200 million	Series C	US	9 August
Basys.ai	$2.4 million	Pre seed	US	15 August
Abcuro	$155 million	Series B	US	17 August
Visana Health	$10.1 million	Seed	US	18 August
Public company financings
COMPASS Pathways	$285 million	Private placement	US	16 August
Aptamer	£3.6 million	Follow-on raise	UK	31 July

 

 

 

Bank	Analyst(s)
ABG Sundal Collier	Daniel Thorsson, Morten Larsen
Banco de Sabadell, S.A.	Javier Esteban
Bankhaus Lampe KG	Heiko Feber
Bank Vontobel AG	Carla Baenziger
Barclays	Blanka Porkolab, Emily Field, Hassan Al-Wakeel, Krishna Chaitanya Arikatla, Matt Miksic, Peter Lawson
Berenberg Bank	Kerry Holford, Luisa Hector, Tom Jones, Zhiqiang Shu, Sam England, Beatrice Allen, Odysseas Manesiotis (David Hogg)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch	Graham Parry (London), John Aldersley, Michael Leonidovich Ryskin
Bryan, Garnier & Co	Ingrid Gafanhão, Jean Jacques Le Fur, Olga Smolentseva
BMO Capital Markets	Evan Seigerman
CA Cheuvreux	Oliver Reinberg
Carnegie Bank	Kristofer Liljeberg-Svensson,  Lars Topholm, Niels Granholm,  Richard  Koch, Ulrik Trattner
Cenkos Securities	Chris Donnellan, Ed Jinks
Citi	David Crawley, Andrew Baum, Peter Verdult, Veronika Dubajova
Cowen International	Charles Rhyee, David Kirkpatrick, Joshua Jennings, Ken Cacciatore, Marc Frahm, Ritu Baral, Yaron Werber (US)
Credit Suisse	Christoph Gretler, Dominic Lunn, Elizabeth Walton, Harry Sephton, Jo Walton (Phil Gestrin), Liav Abraham (US), Matthew Weston, Tanya Hansalik, Trung Huynh
Danske Equities	Thomas Bowers
Deutsche Bank	Emmanuel Papadakis, Farzana Habib, Jeremy Finkelstein, Justin Bowers, Rajan Sharma, Lars Hevreng
Degroof Petercam	Christophe Dombu, Laura Roba
DnB NOR	Rune Dahl
DZ Bank	Elmar Kraus, Peter Spengler, Thomas Maul
Edison	John Savin, Pooya Hemami, Soo Romanoff
Exane BNP Paribas	Alex Evans, Hugo Solvet, Richard Parkes, Julien Dormois, Nicolas Langlet
finnCap	Mark Brewer, Steve McGarry
Goldman Sachs	Keyur Parekh, Nick Hallatt
Goodbody	Ken Rumph (Brough Ransom)
Handelsbanken Capital Markets	Mattias Häggblom
Hardman and Co	Martin Hall
HSBC	Anand Date
ING	David Vagman, Maxime Stranart
Investec	Andrew Whitney, Jens Lindqvist
Jefferies	Brian Balchin, Grace Lee, Ing Shen Tan, James Vane-Tempest, Lucy Codrington, Michael Toomey, (Jan Scherer), Peter Welford
JP Morgan Cazenove	Alex Comer, David Adlington, James Gordon, John Priestner, (Marjan Daeipour), Richard Vosser
KBC Securities	Jeroen Van den Bossche, Michiel Declercq, Thomas Vranken
Kempen & Co	Sebastiaan van der Schoot, Suzanne van Voorthuizen
Kepler Capital Markets	Arsene Guekam, David Evans, Maja Pataki, Matthias Maenhaut
Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg	Timo Kuerschner
Liberum Capital	Seb Jantet, Edward Thomason
Morgan Stanley	Cecilia Furlong, David Lewis, Jenny Leeds, Matthew Harrison, Ricky Goldwasser, Tejas Savant, Patrick Wood
Nord/LB	Holger Fechner, Thorsten Strauss
Numis	Kane Slutzkin, Paul Cuddon
Oddo Securities	Martial Descoutures, Oliver Metzger, Oussama Denguir
Panmure Gordon	(David Cox), Julie Simmonds, Mike Mitchell
Pareto Securities	Johan Unnerus
Peel Hunt	Miles Dixon, Edward Sham
RBC Capital Markets	Alistair Campbell, Charles Weston, Jack Reynolds-Clarke, Zoe Karamanoli, Natalia Webster
Redburn	Ed Ridley-Day, Josh Smith, Folashade Oyewole, Levon Dermanoukian, Richard Lu, Simon Baker, Stefan Nahum
Rx Securities	Joseph Hedden, Qize Ding, Samir Devani
Sanford C Bernstein	Lisa Clive
Santander	Alejandro Conde Fraisolí, Tomasz Krukowski
SEB Enskilda	Martin Parkhøi, Søren Samsøe
Shore Capital	Sean Conroy
Singer Capital Markets	Chris Glasper, Karl Keegan
Société Générale	Florent Cespedes, Delphine Le Louët, Justin Smith, Patrick Jousseaume
Stifel	Christian Glennie, Dylan van Haaften, Eric Le Berrigaud, James Orsborne, Max Herrmann, (Seb Wykeham)
SVB Securities	David Risinger, Puneet Souda
Trinity Delta	Franc Gregori, Hans Bostrom, Lala Gregorek, Philippa Gardner
UBS	Barbora Blaha, Graham Doyle, Laura Sutcliffe, Michael Leuchten, Xian Deng
WH Ireland	Emma Ulker
William Blair	Matthew Larew

 

APM Health Europe Eliza Slawther, Nick Hudson, Thomas Meek

Associated Press Courtney Bonnell, Tom Murphy

BBC Alex Therrien, Andrew Picken (Scotland), Esme Stallard, Fergus Walsh, Hugh Pym, James Gallagher, Katie Hope, Kate Stephens Marc Ashdown, Rebecca Morelle

Bloomberg Albertina Torsoli (Paris), Alexandra Semenova (New York), Allison McNeely, Alice Atkins (London),Andy Hoffman (Geneva), Anna Edney (Washington), Deirdre Hipwell (London), Dinesh Nair (EMEA), Fiona Rutherford (New York), John Lauerman (Boston), John Stepek (London), Katherine Griffiths (London), Kelly Gilblom (Los Angeles), Madison Muller (New York), Marthe Fourcade (Paris), Michelle Fay Cortez (Hong Kong), Naomi Kresge (Berlin), Sabah Meddings (UK), Tim Loh (Munich), Winnie Hsu (Tokyo),

BioCentury Danielle Golovin, Dave Flores, Durkin Wolfe, Jeff Cranmer, Karen Tkach Tuzman, Lauren Martz, Meredith Durkin Wolfe, Paul Bonanos, Richard Guy, Simone Fishburn, Stephen Hansen

BioPharma Dive Ben Fidler, Davide Savenije, Delilah Alvarado, Gwendolyn Wu, Jacob Bell, Jonathan Gardner, Kristen Jensen, Ned Pagliarulo

BioWorld Alfred Romann, Brian Orelli, Caroline Richards , Randy Osborne, Tamra Sami

BioWorld MedTech Bernard Banga, David Godkin, Shani Alexander

Boston Business Journal Don Seiffert, Rowan Walrath

Boston Globe Dana Gerber, Jonathan Saltzman

Boston Herald Joe Dwinell, Lance Reynolds, Matthew Medsger, Rick Sobey, Sean Cotter

Chicago Business Journal Alex Zorn

CNBC Jonathan Vanian, Sara Salinas

Daily Express, Callum Hoare, Giles Sheldrick, Hanna Geissler, Solen Le Net

Daily Mail Anna Hodgekiss, Caitlin Tilley, Calum Muirhead, Cassidy Morrison, Christopher Carbone, Emily Hawkins, Emily Joshu (US), Hannah McDonald, John Abiona, John-Paul Ford Rojas, Jonathan Chadwick, Kate Pickles, Mansur Shaheen, Mark Shapland, Roger Dobson, Shaun Wooller, Stacey Liberatore, Victoria Allen, Xantha Leatham

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Evening Standard Daniel O'Boyle, Jonathan Prynn

Fast Company Brendan Vaughan

Fierce Annalee Armstrong, Carly Helfand, Conor Hale, Emily Mullin, James Waldron, Max Bayer, Nick Paul Taylor

Financial Times Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Clive Cookson, Darren Dodd, Donato Mancini, Gary Silverman, Gill Plimmer, Hannah Kuchler, Helen Thomas, Jamie Smyth, Jennifer Thompson, Nikou Asgari, Oliver Barnes, Robert Armstrong, Sarah Neville, Tommy Stubbington

FirstWord Medtech Tina Tan

FirstWord Pharma Anna Bratulic, Michael Flanagan, Simon King

Forbes Bruce Japsen, Steve Brozak

Fortune Christiaan Hetzner, Jeremy Kahn

GenomeWeb Adam Bonislawski, Andrew Han, Ben Butkus, Madeleine Johnson, Molika Ashford, Neil Versel

Healthcare Business International Max Hotopf

HealthInvestor Charles Wheeldon, Zinovia Fragkiadaki

The I Jessie Hewitson, Paul Gallagher

Inc. Kimberly Weisul

Insider Bradley Davis, Chris Johnston, James Dean (US), Kate Duffy (UK), Lara O'Reilly, Lars Dolder, Leah Rosenbaum, Marianne Guenot (UK), Mia de Graaf (US), Rebecca Torrence Samantha Stokes (US), Shona Ghosh (UK), Yeji Jesse Lee (US), Zach Tracer

In Vivo Chloe Kent, David Wild, Jo Shorthouse, Lucie Ellis-Taitt (maternity leave)

Labiotech Roohi Mariam Peter, Willow Shah-Nevlille

Mail on Sunday Ethan Ennals, Eve Simmons, Farah Khalique, Francesca Washtell, Joanne Hart, Neil Craven, Ruth Sunderland

MedCity News Frank Vinluan

MedNous Victoria English

Medscape Lisa Gillespie

Medtech Insight Barnaby Pickering, Philip Greenfield (UK); Reed Miller (US)

Nature Biotechnology Elie Dolgin, Lisa Melton

Pharmaphorum Jonah Comstock, Phil Taylor

PharmaTimes Emily Kimber, Fleur Jeffries, John Pinching

Politico Kelly Hooper (US), Shawn Zeller

Reuters Aditya Samal , Ahmed Aboulenein, Jennifer Rigby, Kate Holton, Paul Sandle, Ramzan Karmali, YP Rajesh

Scrip Alex Shimmings, Andrew McConaghie, Anju Ghangurde, Denise Peterson, Eleanor Malone, Ian Haydock (Asia-Pacific), Jessica Merrill, Joseph Haas, Kevin Grogan (UK), Mandy Jackson, Mary Jo Laffler (US)

Shares Magazine Martin Gamble

Sifted Amy Lewin, John Thornhill, Maija Palmer, Mimi Billing, Nicolas Colin, Tim Smith (Spain)

Sky News Alice Udale-Smith, Ian King, Mark Kleinman, Megan Baynes, Mhari Aurora, Paul Kelso, Thomas Moore, Tom Clarke

Seeking Alpha Max Gottlich

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The Economist Alice Fulwood, Alok Jha, Catherine Brahic, Hal Hodson, Natasha Loder, Slavea Chankova

The Guardian Andrew Gregory, Anna Isaac, Denis Campbell, Hannah Devlin, John Collingridge, Julia Kollewe, Juliette Garside, Linda Geddes, Tom Calverley, Dana Canedy

The New York Times, Alexandra Sifferlin (US), Alisha Haridasani Gupta (US), Azeen Ghorayshi (US), Benjamin Mueller (US), Emily Anthes (US), Gina Kolata (US), Jack Ewing (US), Jason Karaian (London), Katie Thomas (US), Mohammed Hadi (US), Rachel Dry (US), Rich Barbieri (Asia) Stephanie Nolen (US), Vivian Giang (US), Yonette Joseph (US)

The Pink Sheet Francesca Bruce, Ian Schofield, Neena Brizmohun, Nielsen Hobbs, Vibha Sharma (UK), Sue Sutter (US)

The Telegraph Anne Gulland, Cameron Henderson, Chris Williams, Daniel Woolfson, Ellie Zolfagharifard, Hannah Boland, James Burton, Joe Pinkstone, Laura Donnelly, Laurie Havelock, Lizzie Roberts, Mark Hughes, Neil Johnston, Oscar Williams-Grut, Patrick Mulholland, Samuel Lovett, Sarah Knapton

The Sun Ashley Armstrong, Alice Fuller, Sean Keach

The Sunday Times, Ben Spencer, Danny Fortson (US), Gretchen Friemann (Ireland), Jamie Nimmo, Jim Armitage, Jon Yeomans, Laith Al-Khalaf, Lucy Tobin, Luke Vance Barr, Oliver Shah, Shaun Lintern

The Times Alex Ralph, Callum Jones (US), Dominic Walsh, Eleanor Hayward, Emma Powell, Fiona Macrae, Harry Wallop, Jessica Newman, Katie Prescott, Kat Lay, Kaya Burgess, Richard Fletcher, Rhys Blakely, Simon Freeman, Tom Whipple, Tracey Boles

The Wall Street Journal Amy Dockser Marcus (US), Anna Wilde Mathews (US), Aylin Woodward (US), Brian Gormley (US), Daniela Hernandez (US), David Wainer (US), Eric Niller (US), Jared Hopkins (US), Jonathan Rockoff (US), Joseph Walker (US), Julie Wernau (US), Liz Essley Whyte (US), Lizeth Beltran (US), Nidhi Subbaraman (US), Peter Loftus (US), Stefanie Ilgenfritz (US)

The Washington Post Carolyn Johnson (US), Helen Fessenden (US), Lori Montgomery (US), Mark Johnson (US), Victoria Jaggard (US)

Timmerman Report Luke Timmerman

Unquote Harriet Matthews, Rachel Lewis

Wired Grace Browne, Peter Guest