Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

The field has gotten so competitive that multiple products are on the market for some diseases. An April report from Evaluate Pharma predicted sales of orphan drugs to rise 12 percent a year between now and 2024, when they will account for an estimated 20 percent of worldwide prescription drug sales.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2020

million more shares than anticipated and pricing at the high end of its planned range. The stock price closed at $21.80, up 28 percent. The company joins the public markets with four product candidates in its pipeline, all topical non-steroidal treatments being developed for seven dermatological indications.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The industry can only go so far with growth through hyper-inflated pricing and mega-M&As.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

La Jolla Pharmaceutical is turning its focus to its lone FDA-approved product and another one in the pipeline after an experimental drug for a rare blood disease failed a late-stage study.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The price of insulin, a life-saving treatment discovered a century ago, has been a flashpoint amid the broader drug pricing debate. The FDA is trying to tame high insulin prices by encouraging price competition. Under a rule change published this week, the FDA will classify insulin as a biological product.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2020

That price is a 60 percent premium to the Boston-based company’s closing stock price on Friday. The company currently has two commercialized products, along with others in its pipeline, some of which are in development with large. for each share of Akcea (NASDAQ: AKCA ) that it does not already own.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. The increase in dollars flowing to agtech comes despite commodity prices that are down 65 percent from their 2013 peak, the report says. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2018

A combination of the sheer number of products a retailer like Walmart has on offer and the pace of 24/7 shopping makes it very difficult to maintain real-time inventories. “If And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

—Allergan CEO Brent Saunders criticized “egregious price takers” and pledged his own firm would practice responsible pricing to get out in front of potential legislative action that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been threatening.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

The remaining neurology and pain sales staff will operate under the same management, a streamlining move that the company hopes will help the company better target the key physicians who prescribe the company’s products. In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

Novartis said Wednesday that it would not charge for its newly approved cellular immunotherapy, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah)—the first so-called CAR-T product to ever come to market—if it fails to help patients within a month. The no-charge promise didn’t assuage critics of the price.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. They sponsor TWiVC. OTHER DEALS: 1. BlockChalk.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2019

Here’s a recap of the biotech companies that priced IPOs Wednesday evening. The Denmark-based biopharmaceutical company is a large, international organization whose commercialized products contributed to its $455 million-plus in 2018 revenue.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. As the San Diego Union Tribune reported in 2013, Tsien (pictured) was also unafraid to shine the spotlight on what he considered suspect scientific approaches, even when espoused by legends like DNA co-discoverer James Watson. .

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. Petnet’s products are manufactured in China.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— 5D Robotics , founded in 2009 in Carlsbad, CA, (about 30 miles north of San Diego), has developed a device that integrates GPS, inertial guidance, optical positioning, and other technologies. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2018

Athena Club, a subscription program for feminine hygiene products, is the latest entrant into the direct-to-women e-commerce space and announced today that it has raised $3.6 Co-founder Maria Markina says her New York-based startup gives women the convenience of a subscription service but at lower prices compared to other similar services.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It’s the same performance at one-twentieth the price,” Morris says. His San Leandro, CA-based company, TerrAvion , relies on a network of contract pilots to capture weekly shots of his customers’ vineyards, corn fields, and strawberry rows. Morris says an equivalent coverage using drones would cost 20 times as much.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Its three lead products, for Pompe (AT982), Crigler-Najjar (AT342), and X-Linked myotubular myopathy (AT132), are expected to produce preliminary data from their first trials in the second half of next year. (RegenX’s work comes from the labs of University of Pennsylvania gene therapy pioneer Jim Wilson ).

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year. The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2017

Bard for $24 billion to tap into the growing markets for products used in treating vascular conditions and cancer. percent premium over Bard’s closing stock price Friday. In a medical technology merger with implications for the healthcare sector in the United States and beyond, Becton Dickinson is acquiring C.R.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. [ Updated, 9:20 a.m.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

—Shares of San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) fell more than 32 percent after the next-gen sequencing giant slashed its revenue projections once again. The stock price was down 10 percent as of Thursday’s close. in July 2015. AND IN OTHER NEWS…. The drug is already approved to treat PBC in the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Just as many M&A rumors flame out as lead to deals, of course, but the news was enough to give Biogen’s stock price a big bump, and ignite chatter about what a sale of one of biotech’s heavyweights would mean, particularly for the Boston area. The rumors boosted Biogen’s sinking stock price nearly 10 percent.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2019

In early 2017, Scott Gottlieb was considered the most moderate of the potential candidates to head the Food and Drug Administration, which is the most powerful regulator of medical products in the world. It wasn’t a high bar to clear.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2019

Two more huge drug companies, Celgene and Bristol-Myers Squibb, learned they would have to leave a big product behind if they want to merge. Two huge drug companies, AbbVie and Allergan, said they’d be better as one.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The sellers of those devices don’t care: they’re now selling newer and better models, and the original buyers only cared about price and features. We had transient problems using important tools (like GitHub, PagerDuty, and Zenefits) that cost us productivity and could have impaired our response to a secondary attack.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The FDA agreed this summer to reorganize the way it evaluates drugs, diagnostics, and other cancer-related products. X : You don’t think that sequencing prices will come down enough? Agreeing on what to do, and how to do it, is the first step. TJ : Important new infrastructures will have to be built, for sure.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

. —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ), of Santa Monica, CA, said that it could file for FDA approval of an experimental treatment known as KTE-C19 by the end of 2016 —meaning there’s a chance Kite could be the first to market with a “CAR-T” product, a form of cellular immunotherapy for cancer. In the U.S.,

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2019

The merger announcement came as Pfizer was finishing off another deal, the spinoff of its consumer product division, which was combined with a similar unit. This week, Pfizer announced it a deal to spin off Upjohn and merge it with generic drug maker Mylan, the developer of the EpiPen.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Heather McPhaul is the founder of AgingGal.com , a funny little blog about aging and other inconveniences. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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