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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’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

PacketSled, a cybersecurity startup based in suburban San Diego, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Keshif Ventures, a local angel investment fund that has put money into dozens of tech startups in the San Diego area. Two other small funds, Blu Ventures and JHS Ventures joined in the round.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Businesses have been rapidly been building up around marijuana since states began legalizing its recreational use in 2012. That’s caused by THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the cannabis component responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects. More recently, CBD has been gaining in popularity as.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Now Loring and Andres Bratt-Leal, who joined her lab in 2012 as a post-doctoral. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. The opioid crisis reaches all corners of the nation, and newly released data this week revealed how the growth of the epidemic tracked with a massive increase in the production and distribution of these drugs.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Lorcaserin was approved in 2012 as a weight management therapy for use in addition to a reduced-calorie diet and exercise. The FDA said Thursday that its request for removal of the product from the market is voluntary, but Eisai has already started the process for doing so.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

San Francisco-based Atomwise has developed deep learning techniques for use in structure-based small molecule drug discovery. Two venture-backed startups that have developed technologies intended to speed up the drug discovery and development process are combining those tools in a bid to achieve their goals together.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

When the FDA approved the drug in 2012, the agency was concerned about heart risks. They also evaluate how a therapy works over a longer period of time. This week, results of such a study led to the market withdrawal of weight-loss pill lorcaserin (Belviq). But the post-marketing study revealed a higher incidence of.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals. But filings also show the company’s net losses widening each year since 2012. Those acquisitions helped Pernix reach $175.8 Last year, Pernix reported a $148.3 million net loss. Consequently, Pernix’s stock price has suffered.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2020

Hunkapiller has served as chief executive since 2012, when he succeeded former company head Hugh Martin , stepping into the position about 15 months after the company went public and netted about $200 million. Previously Hunkapiller, a DNA sequencing industry veteran, spent more than.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— Swift Navigation , founded in 2012 and now based in San Francisco, is using real-time kinematic (RTK) technology to enhance the precision of satellite-based GPS positioning data. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

San Diego-based Retrophin said that its drug, sparsentan, outperformed another drug sometimes used to manage a rare kidney disease, called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), in a Phase 2 clinical trial. He licensed the drug from San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND ) in March 2012.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It partnered with Nike in Portland, OR , on apparel-related technology in 2012 and with Barclays on fintech in 2014. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Social games.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

McLaughlin joined Silicon Valley-based Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW ) as president and CEO in 2011, ahead of its 2012 IPO. Wireless giant Qualcomm has appointed Mark McLaughlin , the former CEO of network security company Palo Alto Networks, as chairman of its board of directors. He served as the company’s top executive through June 2018.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 12, 2018

Two gene therapies approved in Europe since 2012, from UniQure (NASDAQ: QURE ) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK ), launched. Can Spark lead the way in showing that the new kinds of payment models it is experimenting with will succeed in getting the healthcare system to pay for such pricey, one-time treatments?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

According to a recent ScoreStream statement , San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, a longtime ScoreStream investor, led the round, and was joined by Sinclair Broadcasting, Verizon Ventures, and R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of the advertising agency R/GA. million since it was founded in 2012.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

Carlsbad, CA-based ChromaCode was founded in late 2012 with the idea of boosting old-school molecular diagnostics instruments used in clinical diagnoses. The advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing has greatly accelerated biomedical research and discovery, and brought the cost of sequencing a whole human genome to roughly $1,000.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. billion.

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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. Illumina fended off a hostile takeover bid from Roche back in February 2012, and over the next three years shares went from about $51 apiece to as high as $219.30

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 9, 2016

After all, it had also failed to improve a broader range of patients with mild to moderate disease in two trials that reported results in 2012. The bad news was also considered a gut punch to the popular “amyloid hypothesis” that many believe to explain the underlying cause to the memory-robbing disorder.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. That’s according to British recruitment firm Liftstream and its new study of biotech companies that went public in the recent boom years.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2016

The company went public in 2012 at $4 per share, but closed as high as $22.08 Regulus was formed in September 2007 as a joint venture between Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ) and Carlsbad, CA-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ). in November 2014.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

In 2012, then-Research Triangle Park, NC-based Tranzyme Pharma, which was acquired by Ocera Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OCRX ) in a reverse merger in 2013, stopped work on its experimental treatment for the condition after the company’s pill was outperformed by a placebo in a mid-stage clinical trial. Evoke didn’t reveal any further plans.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2012, when we started, Amazon had just released the GPUs into the public cloud,” Axerio-Cilies says. Those servers rely on specialized logic chips called graphic processing units or GPUs, which are commonly used to produce 3D animations. That opened a door for GE Healthcare’s next-gen cardiac MRI.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

million in equity financing since its 2012 inception, and had $80.3 But the effect of phototherapy wanes as patients get older, meaning a liver transplant might be required. Patients with type 2 Crigler-Najjar, by comparison, respond to the seizure drug phenobarbital. Audentes has raised $135.8 million in cash as of the end of March.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The company won approval in January 2012 of ivacaftor , the first drug to directly address the molecular malfunction that underlies the deadly disease cystic fibrosis (CF), which causes thick, sticky mucus to clog the lungs.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

billion, or 7 percent, of all Medicare money in 2012, according to the New York Times. In 2014, for the first time ever, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the federal Medicare insurance program, published data showing how much Medicare reimbursement individual providers received.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. October 5, 2012. In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. 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.” She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. San Francisco.

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