Celator Raises $22.5 Million For Combination Chemo Drugs

Celator Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company with offices in Princeton, NJ and Vancouver, BC, said it has raised $22.5 million in a third round of venture financing to develop new combinations of chemotherapy drugs for cancer. Domain Associates, Ventures West, Quaker BioVentures, TL Ventures, GrowthWorks Capital and BDC Capital all participated. Kenneth Galbraith, general partner at Ventures West in Vancouver, who we have noted has his finger on the pulse of biotech in Vancouver, is joining Celator’s board of directors.

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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.