Private Company Edition: TVM, Focus/MD Anderson and RA Capital launched new venture capital funds. Also, LianBio’s $310m crossover financing, AavantiBio’s Sarepta-backed $107m series A and Sirnaomics’ $105m series D led recent VC rounds. 

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Venture Funding Deals column provides a monthly review of emerging In Vitro Diagnostic, Medical Device, and Pharmaceutical companies that have received venture funding. This month’s column covers deals announced July through August 2015.

Exact Sciences’ and Genomic Health announce favorable results for colon cancer tests. Boston Scientific launches trial of MRI-safe pacemaker. More research news.

X-Cell Medical's mission is to discover and develop alternative drugs for device-drug combinations, believing that the drug in such combination products is the most valuable component. The company has in-house expertise in drug discovery, formulation, and polymer coatings, as well as a deep set of cardiovascular device experience, coming from its medical advisory board, which consists of some of the most influential cardiology device users in the world.