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Maxygen to form joint venture with Astellas, shedding most of its R&D

maxygen-logoMaxygen, the Redwood City biotech company that hired Lazard last October to help it explore "strategic options" about the same time it laid off 30 percent of its staff, Read More →

Neurogesx loses financial expert from its audit committee

neurogesx-logoBruce Peacock resigned today from the board of directors after serving less than two years there, where he also chaired its audit committee and was deemed its "financial expert" Read More →

CV Therapeutics CEO pledges stock as inducement to Gilead

cv-therapeutics-logoLouis Lange, the chief executive of CV Therapeutics, agreed in effect to sell his entire stake in the company to Gilead Sciences as an "inducement" to that company to enter into Read More →

Astellas takes bid for CV Therapeutics to shareholders; sues to stop poison-pill defense

cv-therapeutics-logo1Astellas Pharma is appealing directly to the stockholder of CV Therapeutics, offering to give them $16 a share, an offer it has unsuccessfully made twice before to CV's board, most recently Read More →

CV Therapeutics turns down Astellas offer yet again

cv-therapeutics-logoCV Therapeutics, the Palo Alto maker of the chest-pain treatment drug, Ranexa, said Friday the company's board turned down an offer to buy it for $16 a share from Read More →

CV Therapeutics extends poison pill for another year

cv-logo1The board of directors at CV Therapeutics decided to extend by a year the shareholders rights plan they have in place to fend off hostile takeovers. The plan, otherwise Read More →
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