Confluence Life Sciences, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the rapid discovery and development of kinase inhibitors to treat cancer and inflammatory disease, has been awarded a $289,000 grant to develop new drugs for hard to treat cancers such as pancreatic cancer. The award is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from [...]

St. Louis, MO.  – September 17, 2012 – Confluence Life Sciences, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the rapid discovery and development of kinase inhibitors to treat cancer and inflammatory disease, today announced a $4 million Series A venture capital financing.  Proceeds from the financing will enable Confluence to advance its product candidates and leverage [...]

Startups Sprout with Nurturing by BioGenerator, Helix. All a Seedling needs is a little “watering.” And a favorable climate. Biotech companies generally don’t make the same sort of noise that fledgling rock bands do, but they want just as badly to be noticed. For the next big thing in music, it’s a recording contract. For [...]

The St. Louis County Economic Council is betting that $1.5 million raised from leasing 56 acres of land to the River City Casino in south St. Louis County will help foster growth in early-stage bioscience companies. The St. Louis County Port Authority, an affiliate of SLCEC, has committed to funding the newly created Helix Fund [...]

St. Louis County Port Authority, an affiliate of the St. Louis County Economic Council, has invested $50,000 in Confluence Life Sciences, Inc., an early-stage life sciences company developing innovative treatments for animal and human diseases including cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. Joe Monahan, a highly regarded research scientist with 28 years experience in the drug [...]

St. Louis County Port Authority, an affiliate of the St. Louis County Economic Council, has invested $50,000 in Confluence Life Sciences Inc., an early-stage life sciences company in Spanish Lake. Research scientist Joe Monahan started the company less than a year ago. Confluence is developing treatments for animal and human diseases including cancer and chronic [...]

Creative business ideas bubble up from underground every day. Making one take flight is a lot more complicated. It takes vision, yes, but it also takes capital. It takes marketing muscle, for sure, but also proof that the idea works. At a time when the nation’s — and the region’s — economies are lurching with [...]

The Coalition for Plant and Life Sciences will open a new $1 million lab for science start-ups Wednesday at CORTEX, midtown St. Louis’ biotech research district. The 5,400-square-foot BioGenerator Accelerator Labs at 4320 Forest Park Ave. were designed to provide scientists and entrepreneurs at early-stage companies workspace at little or no cost. The experimental facility [...]