BioNotebook: After selling to Actelion, entrepreneur Tullman starts new company, and Revance, Dicerna, UniQure file for IPOs
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Executive Summary
Steve Tullman, the serial biopharma entrepreneur who sold companies to Actelion, Allergan and Cephalon in the past few years, is starting a new company, Alexar Therapeutics. Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Alexar is being formed with $21.5 million in financing raised by Mr Tullman’s firm NeXeption. In September, another Tullman company, Ceptaris Therapeutics, was sold to Actelion for $250 million.
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