RXi Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:RXII]]), the Worcester, MA-based developer of RNA interference treatments, said today it has raised $16.2 million through a stock offering. Investors have agreed to buy 2.7 million shares at $6 apiece, plus warrants to buy another 540,000 shares. The investors got a 26 percent discount on the stock, based on RXi’s closing share price yesterday of $8.11. Rodman & Renshaw acted as the exclusive placement agent on the deal.
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Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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