Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The 2020 National Xconomy Awards complimentary two-week, 11-part, on-demand Meet the Finalists daily webcast series starts this Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. Registration is complimentary and includes access to a networking app with already more than 400 life science contacts. The daily series leads up to the Thursday, Sept.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2020

By month’s end, five more are anticipated to join the class of 2020 initial public offerings—and four of those are in life sciences, according to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital. So far this year four privately held companies have made the transition to trading on the public markets.

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Xconomy

MAY 27, 2020

Screening Approaches for Reducing Attrition Due to Drug-induced Liver Injury (DILI) Early in Drug Discovery Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Time: 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT Duration: 1 hour Register today In this webinar, we will discuss a set of in vitro assays that tackle the challenges of in vitro hepatotoxicity assessment.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2020

The 2020 National Xconomy Awards represent the very best our life science industry has to offer. Have you had your say yet?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 21, 2020

While business is historically slow in August, this month seems to be bucking the trend, just like so many other unexpected developments in 2020. Perhaps life sciences executives have been less distracted by summer excursions this year in a world in which the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly curtailed travel.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2019

It was the latest in a series of hearings centered on the rising cost of prescription medication, which has captured attention on both sides of the political aisle and is likely to become a central issue in the 2020 election cycle. PBMs control which drugs are included or excluded from an insurer’s roster.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

In 2020 (yes, that’s really a year), San Francisco might have a new mayor. But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and everything that mushrooms around it seem just as long as the holiday break—a distant memory!—that

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

ASCO 2020 won’t be the Windy City gathering it usually is, but drug and diagnostics developers are still raring to share fresh data from their efforts in cancer immunotherapy, targeted treatments, and early-stage screening methods during the course of the three-day scientific program.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This Biotech Votes 2020 Election Preview Report is an in-depth analysis of the races that matter the most, from the top of the ticket down the ballot to Senate, House, and state. First, make sure you’re registered to vote. Check out this handy form to verify your voter information, find out your polling location, or request a mail-in ballot.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 14, 2020

[ Updated 1/15/2020, 8:51 a.m. See below. ] As the nation grapples with the ongoing opioid crisis, an FDA advisory panel on Tuesday unanimously voted against recommending approval of a Nektar Therapeutics painkiller that would add a new compound to the drug class—even though it was designed to reduce the risk of abuse.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This week, the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Harvey Alter, Michael Alton, and Charles Rice, whose research led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Their work paved the way for blood tests and new medicines that can cure the infection.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The 2020 National Xconomy Awards complimentary two-week, 11-part, on-demand Meet the Finalists daily webcast series continues each day this week at 11 a.m. Registration is complimentary and includes access to a networking app with already more than 400 life science contacts. The daily series leads up to the Thursday, Sept.

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Xconomy

JUNE 13, 2019

The new Series B round will give San Francisco-based BlackThorn—a startup spun out of the Scripps Research Institute in 2013—the backing to run human tests of two experimental treatments. The other, for autism, could start a Phase 1 study in 2020. Those plans. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The 2020 National Xconomy Awards complimentary two-week, 11-part, on-demand Meet the Finalists daily webcast series continues this Tuesday and Wednesday at 11 a.m. Registration is complimentary and includes access to a networking app with already more than 600 life science contacts. The daily series leads up to the Thursday, Sept.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

With the 2020 election just over a year away, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has unveiled the Democratic Party’s answer to public discontent over high prescription drug prices. A preview of the plan was leaked last week. Today’s announcement doesn’t stray far. The new plan would have the U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. By 2020, the cannabis industry is projected to hit $21.8 billion , according to ArcView Market Research.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2020

The 2020 National Xconomy Awards represent the very best our life science industry has to offer. Have you had your say yet?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2020

If this week is any indication, the steady march of life science companies to Wall Street will continue in 2020. Black Diamond Therapeutics is leading the way, having raised $201 million from its IPO. In its first day of trading, the cancer drug developer watched its shares soar more than 108 percent.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Companies such as San Diego-based SlantRange are betting that drones, flying lower and slower, can deliver images at higher resolution than either planes or satellites. TerrAvion charges $6 an acre for 20 weekly overflights for irrigated crops in the Pacific Northwest—one of the regional subscription plans it offers.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

According to a 2015 report from EvaluatePharma , the market for drugs for rare, or “orphan” diseases, as they’re known, has been growing by 12 percent every year and is expected to reach $178 billion worldwide by 2020.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

GE Healthcare’s CEO John Flannery has predicted a 50-fold increase in the flow of data from healthcare devices by 2020. In one project, the GE division’s IT team has written software to speed up the processing of data from CT scans of the brain so that doctors can make quicker treatment decisions for suspected stroke victims.

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2018

Trump administration health officials were out on the stump this week, talking tough about drug prices and healthcare value, encouraging the private sector to take the lead but letting everyone know the federal government is willing to push.

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