socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Five, Southern California firms are among companies who are splitting up $62M in government funding for the research, development, and demonstration of concentrating solar power systems, according to an announcement by the U.S. for building a solar power tower plant design; San Diego-based General Atomics getting up to $2.1M

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Scripps Research Institute and AbbVie have agreed to broaden an existing drug discovery agreement focused on cancer cell therapies to now encompass treatments for other kinds of disease. Financial terms of this latest agreement weren’t disclosed, but the deal expands the purview. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2014

San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies said Friday that it is in a joint development agreement with Corning Incorporated , to work together on ultracapacitor technologies. maxwell technologies corning ultracapacitor research development battery' Size and terms of the agreement were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2010

Schrodinger , a firm focused on computational drug design for the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology research industry, announced today that Bill Gates--through his investment firm, Cascade Investment--has invested in the company. Schrodinger is spread between Portland, New York, San Diego, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down with Dr. Alfred Wong , Chief Science Officer, and Albert Liu , Vice President of Business Development, at Pong Research (www.pongresearch.com), a company developing products for redirecting cell phone antennas to reduce the radiation exposure of users. Talk about the technology behind the product?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

San Diego Software Industry Council. This presentation will examine strategies and tools to select the content and features, design for cross platform solutions, and evaluate the technology for your current and future applications. Tuesday, September 11, 2012 -- Mobility: Exceeding Your Customers? Expectations.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Now, the company said, it has achieved the necessary temperatures to make its reactors commercially viable. .

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm and semiconductor consortium SEMATECH said today that the two are in a collaboration, focused on CMOS scaling and technology. According to the two, Qualcomm will participate in helping SEMATECH's efforts to assess the feasibility of technologies designed to extend Moore's Law. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton was previously the executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corp., After joining Brain Corp. At Brain Corp.,

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That research is starting to pay off as the companies now look ahead to pivotal studies testing that compound in several inherited forms of the disorder. The study was small and was not designed to show statistical significance. But combined with previously reported Phase 2 results in.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 22, 2011

Lately it seems all we hear about is data - research data, primary data, mashed-up data, raw data, cooked data and more. To address this deluge, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is on the verge of deploying a new kind of supercomputer designed specifically to handle the largest data sets science and engineering can muster.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2015

San Diego-based Enlibrium announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in a Series A financing, to go towards cancer therapeutics. The startup said it is developing novel drugs based on the anti-cancer activity of metformin and designed to reduce cancer energy production to treat a range of cancer types. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2017

San Diego-based ViaCyte said today it is collaborating with W.L. Under their collaborative research agreement, ViaCyte said it will work with Gore to develop a next-generation version of the bio-engineered packet that ViaCyte fills with stem cells that have been engineered to become pancreatic cells.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Researchers are hopeful the industry’s next breakthroughs will enable A.I. But getting there will require designing software that can “think” and communicate more like humans—big challenges that A.I. to move beyond answering narrow queries to handling broader assignments.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego. Josh Viner: Wheels is live in Los Angeles and San Diego. What is Wheels?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 29, 2016

Scientists from Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego-based industrial biotech, have re-engineered a fast-growing microorganism found in salt marsh mud to maximize its production of proteins and to optimize other common bio-based processes. coli as a host organism. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The company is researching next-generation reactor designs , including the traveling wave reactor and the molten chloride reactor, that would be cheaper to build and operate than previous generations of reactors—as well as safer.

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Xconomy

MAY 20, 2020

The drug discovery agreement is seeking small molecule drugs that can hit proteins considered “undruggable” by designing therapies that prompt the proteasome—the cellular machinery that disposes of waste—to get rid of problematic proteins.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

But immunotherapy is also creating new challenges and exacerbating old ones for doctors, patients, and researchers. Aduro CEO Steve Isaacs says the design—assigning about a third of the patients to one of several chemotherapy options—was an FDA requirement. “We didn’t have much choice,” he says.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—a famed military R&D group—wants to finance safety measures for the new gene-editing age. “We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Another example.

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APRIL 30, 2014

One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University shared data that shows the state is the nation’s second-largest exporter of life sciences products , with $9.9 Several world-class research institutions are located in the state, including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

Forgacs and his father, Gabor Forgacs, a University of Missouri professor of biological physics, are also co-founders of San Diego-based Organovo (NYSE: ONVO ), which uses 3D printing technology to create functional, 3D human tissues for use in medical research and therapeutic applications.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

But the more accurate pollsters may have succeeded by making judgment calls on the design of their polls, rather than by relying on the power of technology. This is a traditional method that proved so unreliable for venerable opinion research firm Gallup that it decided not to conduct polls for the 2016 presidential race.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east. In New York, we’ve recently launched LaunchLabs, which is designed for very early- and pre-venture stage entrepreneurs and companies. Lately, Alexandria is aggressively expanding its reach.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

The San Diego company sees many reasons why wireless charging will eventually become a robust global market, according to Steve Pazol, a Qualcomm vice president who took over the company’s wireless charging business in 2014. It is based in Southfield, MI, and has about 136,000 employees in 36 countries around the world.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

For consumer robots, though, people want to talk naturally and we need to design casual dialogs that make it easy to express desires without having to give every small detail. Why not just design them to be nice all the time? Also, language allows for multiple interpretations (e.g.,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. Our application is designed to leverage their investment in video, and deliver these guides.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Under Scangos, Biogen has also by design amassed a risky pipeline, highlighted by a potential Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab, and another drug, opicinumab, meant to repair nerve damage in patients with multiple sclerosis. In short, George did an outstanding job and I believe he is leaving the company well positioned for success.”.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2010

Ben spent four years developing the technology, first in the lab, and later in collaboration with a research scientist at the GIA. Diamonds have a most marvelous refractive index, and traditional cutting is very much designed to take advantage of that. Essentially, that was our license to operate in the gem industry. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s designed for business people. He ran DARPA research out of UC Irvine for almost a decade, until stepping out and focusing purely on entrepreneurial efforts. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. It''s not a programming tool, even though it uses a lot of big data.

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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. Then it exited HCV research entirely. “It With what Leiden (pictured) now calls “hubris” and “blindness,” Vertex failed to react quickly enough. Its own hepatitis C drug was crushed.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

To be eligible for the drug, patients must take a test that shows their tumors produce a high amount of the protein PD-L1, which pembrolizumab has been designed to recognize. Roughly a quarter of all advanced NSCLC patients have cancer with high PD-L1 levels, according to earlier studies from Merck. That restriction is important.

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