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Adnectins are a proprietary class of targeted biologics developed by Adnexus.

of New York agreed to buy closely held Adnexus Therapeutics of Waltham for $430 million to gain an experimental cancer medicine.

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With a primary focus on technology, healthcare, and energy, portfolio companies have included Adify, Adnexus Therapeutics, Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Intel, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sirna Therapeutics, StrataCom, and Vostu.

Previously she worked for Flagship Ventures helping the start of several high-tech/biotech companies including Adnexus Therapeutics, Epitome Biosystems and BG Medicine.

As a next-generation biopharma company, Bristol-Myers Squibb seeks to reallocate resources to enable strategic acquisitions [such as the recent purchase of Adnexus Therapeutics] as well as pursue partnerships and other collaborative arrangements," says a company statement.

Adnexus is a developer of a new therapeutic class of biologics called Adnectins.

Past Polaris-backed successes include: Adnexus (acquired by BMS), Advanced Inhalation Research (acquired by Alkermes), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Allaire (ALLR, acquired by Adobe), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Asthmatx (acquired by Boston Scientific), Athenix (acquired by Bayer), Glycofi (acquired by Merck), Internet Brands (acquired by Hellman and Friedman), Ironwood (IRWD), LogMeIn (LOGM), Momenta Pharmaceuticals (MNTA), Powersoft (PWRS, acquired by Sybase), Solidworks, and TechTarget (TTGT).

Several examples of successful portfolio ventures include, Acceleron Pharma, Agios, Accuri Cytometers, AVEO, Morphotek, Adnexus, and Joule Unlimited.