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VelosBio Emerges with $58M in Funding to Steer Cancer Drugs to Clinic

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VelosBio, a biotech startup researching new cancer drugs, has raised $58 million in financing. VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures.

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JLABS Takes Stock of its Experiment in Life Sciences Innovation

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The idea in 2011 was to create a space at what was then Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical research and development facility in San Diego for an “innovation center,” a place where 18 to 20 life sciences startups could incubate, replete with lab space and equipment. The first JLABS incubator opened here.

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San Antonio Makes Pact to Commercialize Military, Academic Research

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San Antonio — Life science groups, city officials, and research institutes in San Antonio are organizing an effort to commercialize more scientific developments coming out of the city’s military organizations.

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An Entrepreneur’s Quest to Make Seattle a Genome Sciences Hub

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Ivan Liachko turned postdoctoral research at the University of Washington into a company whose genomics tools are now found in laboratories researching human, animal, and plant health. His firm, Phase Genomics was one of the first startups to come out of UW’s genome sciences department. Some technologies developed in UW labs.

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Water Metering Startup Wins Vote for “Best Demo” at EvoNexus Event

Xconomy

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters. million and take five years, Sekeroglu said.

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Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College?

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I recently spoke to an international group of entrepreneurship professors at San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. Learning To Learn - A sound college education includes gaining the insights into applying logic, researching data and assessing the veracity information. Get More Than A Degree.

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Avalon Leads $18M in Early Funding for Cancer Immunotherapy Startup

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Fortis Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech, has raised $18 million in initial funding to develop drugs for hard-to-treat prostate and bone marrow cancers. San Diego’s Avalon Ventures led the Series A round, and has established Fortis at COI Pharma, the firm’s biotech incubator (which now houses 16 life sciences startups).

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