Verastem Nabs $55M in IPO; Infinity Halts Ph2 Trial - Jan. 27, 2012

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Friday, January 27, 2012  |   |   |   |  The Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum (PCF) International Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress, www.InternationalPharmaCongress.com, May 14-16, 2012, takes place at the Hilton Budapest in Budapest, Hungary and features tracks on EU, CEE, MEA, global compliance audits and monitoring, FCPA and global anticorruption, global transparency, discourse and aggregate spend and global compliance case studies. For more information, please visit: http://internationalpharmacongress.com/.   •  Verastem, Inc. Nabs $55 Million in IPO More... •  Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. (INFI) Halts Phase 2 Trial More... •  Theraclone Sciences, Inc. and VLST Corp. 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