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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. ” TAE Technologies Michl Binderbauer standing next to the company’s novel fusion reactor. .”

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

San Diego-based Qpex Biopharma announced this morning that it has raised $33M in a Series A funding round, to launch its efforts to battle drug-resistant infections. The company also said it has an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), worth up to a total award of $132M.

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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.

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JULY 14, 2016

San Diego-based Plex Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company aiming at treating ALS, Parkinson's disease and cataracts, says it has raised $670,865, via the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF). The company says its technology was originally developed at the Yale University School of Medicine.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

San Diego-based Ligand (NASDAQ: LGND ) generates revenue from licensing deals and royalties paid by pharmaceutical companies that use technologies it develops or acquires for their own drug research. The company reported revenues of about $120.3 million in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

San Diego-based virtual reality startup Nanome, which is developing technology to help researchers explore the interaction of molecules and molecular compounds using VR, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company disclosed today.

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JULY 21, 2021

San Diego-based high performance computing technology developer MemComputing says it has scored a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Size of that SBIR contract was not nnounced. John Beane is CEO of MemComputing.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

San Diego-based self-driving truck technology developer TuSimple confirmed on Wednesday that the company is cutting 25 percent of its workforce, or approximately 350 people, as part of a restructuring effort at the company. The company said it will have approximately 1,100 employees after the cuts.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

A new, biotech startup focused on delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics, Solstice Biologics , said last week that it has licensed technology developed at UC San Diego, and received $18M in a Series A funding. and his colleagues at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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JULY 3, 2018

San Diego-based Tour Engine , a startup developing a new, more efficient engine that it says delivers a 20 percent gain in efficiency ove the internal combustion engine, has raised $4.84M in funding, the company said on Tuesday. million in private funding led by Joan and Dr. Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

San Diego-based Truvian , which is developing a benchtop, blood testing system to provide lab results for a number of health tests, said it has named Shane Bowen, Ph.D., as its Senior Vice President of Engineering. Truvian says Bowen is the primary contributor to over 60 patent applications. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that led to the development of fluorescent proteins used to illuminate tissue and track biological processes, has died, according to a statement from the university. He compared himself to John C.

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JUNE 8, 2021

San Diego-based Onramp, which is developing a platform to help financial advisors provide access to cryptocurrency, says it has joined Visa's Fintech Fast Track program. Onramp says its service helps financial advisors to research, model, invest, and securely manage their clients' cryptoassets.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

San Diego-based high performance computing (HPC) technology developer MemComputing says it has received two, Air Force Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts. Size of the contracts were not announced.

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JUNE 23, 2016

San Diego’s cybersecurity workforce has grown by nearly 15 percent over the past two years, according to a study released today by the Cyber Center of Excellence, a nonprofit industry group created to boost cybersecurity jobs and technologies in the region. The center also asked the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.

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JULY 2, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm is hoping this week that the newly developing field of augmented reality--the layering of software and the real world via mobile phones and computers--will help bolster use of its products, and has released both a software development kit and announced a new research center around the field.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

San Diego-based Traversa Therapeutics , a biopharmaceuticals firm developing RNA interference (RNAi) technology, said earlier this week that it has named Curt W. Bradshaw as Vice President of Research and Development. Bradshaw joins the firm from CovX, where he was Vice President of Chemistry.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

San Diego-based Neomorph , a biotech startup focused on protein degradation, said today that it has raised $109M in a Series A funding. The company said its targeted protein degradation technology is aimed at developing novel therapeutics across a broad range of disease areas, including oncology. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

San Diego-based Prometheus Laboratories , a developer of specialty pharmaceuticals, and the Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, said Thursday night that they are in a exclusive research agreement. Financial details of the research deal were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Monrovia-based Tanner Research , which provides technology research, electronic design automation (EDA) software, and other products and services, said Tuesday that it has been awarded a SBIR Phase I contract worth $100,000 from the Army Research Office. Tanner's customers include NASA, JPL, Microsoft, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

[ Editor’s Note: Euan Robertson, the Director of Strategic Planning & Special Projects at Columbia Technology Ventures, co-wrote this article.] It is a commonly held belief that academic research institutions, including those in New York City, are fierce competitors.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

San Diego-based Element Biosciences , which is developing DNA sequencing technology, says it has raised $80M in a Series B funding round. The new funding came from Fidelity Management & Research Company and JS Capital LLC, along with Foresite Capital and Venrock. Molly He, PhD is CEO and co-founder of Element.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

San Diego-based ACEA Biosciences , a developer of analytical instruments, systems, and software used in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, along with academia, has been acquired by Agilent Technologies. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. ACEA's CEO is Xiao Xu. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2017

The California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of San Diego (UCSD) have all ranked very highly on a new ranking of universities for their technology transfer efforts, issued by The Milken Insitute , the Santa Monica-based thinktank. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 5, 2017

San Diego-based Comhear , a developer of immersive, 3D audio software, announced on Monday that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding. Comhear develops audio enhancing software. The company said its technology is based on research from the University of California San Diego (UCSD).

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , a developer of transmission technology, said today that it has raised $39M in a Series E preferred stock placement. The fundraising was managed by CIBC World Markets and Mackie Research Capital Corporation.

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JULY 20, 2021

San Diego-based Wugen, a biotechnology company which is developing treatments for solid tumors, recently annoucned a $172M, Series B funding round. The company--which says it licensed its technology from Washington University in St. Bali Muralidhar, M.D., Bali Muralidhar, M.D.,

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MARCH 7, 2019

Chinese pharma company BeiGene has agreed to pay Ambrx $10 million upfront to experiment with technology the biotech has developed in a bid accelerate BeiGene’s search for new protein drugs for cancer treatment. Ambrx says its technology is able to incorporate “non-natural” amino acids into cells like E.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over the last 30 years by the multinational professional services firm. The winners are: — Life Sciences: BioLegend CEO Gene Lay.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging. Here now are responses, edited for clarity, from Mark Bowles, co-founder of medical diagnostics. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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JUNE 30, 2017

San Diego-based Daylight Solutions announced on Thursday that it is now part of Leonardo DRS , after receipt of final regulatory approvals on the $150M acquisition. Daylight Soultions said it will continue to operate from San Diego, with its three co-founders, Dr. Timothy Day, Paul Larson and Sam Crivello, remaining with the company.

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MAY 3, 2017

He continued his research on tumor vasculature and cancer metastasis. Now 77, Ruoslahti (pictured above) is back in San Diego as a founder and CEO of DrugCendR , a startup developing new ways to improve the uptake of anti-cancer drugs in solid tumors. The company spun out of the SBP.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Carslbad-based Life Technologies , a developer of genomic analysis technology, and the University of California at San Diego 's Moores Cancer Center, said this morning that the two are collaborating on a research effort. Tags: life technologies ucsd genomics biotech lifescience.

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MARCH 28, 2019

million from new investors, including the New York-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, following the results of a clinical study of its experimental biomarker monitoring device. Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme.

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MARCH 3, 2011

San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies reports this morning that it has received a $7.01M contract from the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), to develop advanced energy storage systems for power assist hybrid electric vehicles. DOE grants. READ MORE>>.

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