ImmunoGen Grabs $84M

Waltham, MA-based ImmunoGen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IMGN]]), the developer of targeted antibody drugs for cancer, said today it has raised $84 million through a stock offering. The company sold 7 million new shares at $12 apiece. Jefferies & Co., Oppenheimer & Co., RBC Capital Markets, William Blair & Co., Canaccord Genuity and Morgan Joseph TriArtisan managed the offering. ImmunoGen had $115.8 million in cash on hand at the end of March, according to its most recent quarterly report.

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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.