Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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Xconomy

APRIL 28, 2017

To judge the first 100 days of a new administration is, as many pundits have pointed out, an odd vestige of history, more convenient than significant. Which is why we’ll start this week’s roundup with our 99-day evaluation of the Trump administration—at least when it comes to healthcare and the life sciences.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What are the implications of a Trump administration for life science research, or next year’s reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act? —Check out these stories from Nature , Reuters , TheStreet.com , and Forbes for more on the potential election fallout for life science companies, scientific research, and Obamacare.

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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. —Buzzfeed ran a lengthy report Wednesday on the sexual harassment charges against University of Washington vaccine researcher Michael Katze.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2017

San Antonio — George Perry, a scientist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has long proposed that drug developers and researchers need to look earlier into the roots of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. The decision shelves a program that BioMarin bought two years ago for $680 million. But the U.S.

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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. But sagging sales have sent Illumina far down from last year’s peak. But sagging sales have sent Illumina far down from last year’s peak. in July 2015.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers are planning a cancer trial that could be the first ever to use the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to create a human therapy. Rape is a co-founder of San Francisco biotech Nurix. . Let’s get right to it.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In three years, Vertex went from having a billion-dollar hepatitis C business to zero—abandoning the research completely. Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. Then it exited HCV research entirely. “It

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. Biogen was in a long-running battle with Carl Icahn about its strategic direction and hadn’t produced any FDA approved drugs in six years. George joined Biogen at a very challenging time.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. His tenure was marked by a steadfast emphasis of home-grown research over deal making.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. The week started on a reflective note. And then the news flowed, from a fast reprieve for Juno Therapeutics to no mercy for Elizabeth Holmes. —In other Merck news, U.K.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Ionis can get up to $150 million in downstream payments tied to regulatory milestones, and would get royalties on any sales of nusinersen. Cure SMA helped fund the drug program in 2003 when it started out as research at the University of Massachusetts, before it was licensed to Ionis.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

The deal also includes a $175 million deferred payment due in 2019 and $850 million in downstream payouts tied to regulatory and sales targets. —San Carlos, CA-based BioCardia will also go public via a reverse merger , four months after dropping plans for an IPO.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

A key scientist involved in integrin research, Harvard University immunologist Tim Springer, is spinning out a biotech startup to develop a new generation of integrin-blocking drugs—pills instead of antibody-based injections—that he says will benefit from “a complete understanding” of these complex molecules.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Austin —Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its biggest growth planned for Austin, TX. The computer and smartphone manufacturer plans to hire 5,000 new employees in Austin and to spend $1 billion building a new campus on the north end of Austin.

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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.” Dan previously was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at the Brown University Computer Graphics Group and has won a number of Computer Science awards.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Downtown San Diego Condos. Investment Land For Sale.

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