Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Biogen revealed detailed results from its Alzheimer’s trial to a jam-packed room of eager conference attendees this week—and while some described it as a major advance in the field, others were less convinced.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Biogen revealed detailed results from its Alzheimer’s trial to a jam-packed room of eager conference attendees this week—and while some described it as a major advance in the field, others were less convinced.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2018

With the Bio-IT World Conference opening today in Boston, San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN) said it has acquired Edico Genome, a five-year-old startup with technology to accelerate the readout of next-generation sequencing data. Illumina withheld terms of the deal in a statement released this morning.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Munich, Germany, hosted the annual conference of the European Society for Medical Oncology, where cancer drug developers unveiled the latest clinical data for experimental immunotherapies and drugs that treat the disease based on a tumor’s genetic signature. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2019

Now a former director from the company is leading a startup that has raised $15 million to develop new genome sequencing tools. San Diego’s Element Biosciences said Tuesday that it had secured a Series A round led by Foresite Capital, a healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm based in San Francisco, and Silicon Valley’s Venrock.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2020

EQRx launched in January during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference with an audacious pledge to create 10 new drugs in as many years and then sell them at “dramatically” lower prices than existing medicines. Both drugs are anti-cancer molecules in mid-stage development that have been designed to hit known cancer targets. But not much.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2020

In addition to Xcelerate’s four keynote sessions, your ticket also includes admission to the BioProcess International Conference virtual exhibit.

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Xconomy

APRIL 1, 2020

Aspen Neuroscience, a biotech working to develop a therapy that would reprogram those patients’ own living cells in ways that would allow the cells to reconstruct their damaged neural networks, has raised $70 million in a Series A financing round. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2019

Mirati Therapeutics plans to raise more than $200 million this week in a public offering, funding that it plans to use to advance its lead cancer drug candidate, sitravatinib, into late-stage testing, and to continue developing its other targeted oncology programs. The San Diego company said Tuesday that it would sell 2.1

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

Morgan Healthcare Conference, one of the biggest gatherings for the biopharmaceutical industry, kicked off today in San Francisco, and many companies, whether they’re speaking at the event or not, use this time to get their news out. Xconomy is on the ground covering the conference this week. The annual J.P.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Argenx, a Dutch firm with a pipeline of investigational antibody-based therapies, will pay San Diego-based Halozyme to use its drug delivery technology to develop subcutaneous versions of some of the drugs Argenx is developing to treat rare autoimmune diseases and cancers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

San Diego-based Organovo (NASDAQ: ONVO ) said today it plans to use its 3D bio-printing technology to produce living human liver tissue “patches” that can be transplanted in patients with fatal liver disease. The conference is making a webcast of his presentation available here. liver transplant waiting list.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

But robotics is moving slower than expected in some key areas, such as the development of dexterous gripper technology, intuitive user interfaces, and in integrating software and hardware through the full chain of systems engineering, according to Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego’s new Institute for Contextual Robotics.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

The glasses were developed for Amazon by Vuzix , a Rochester, NY -based wearable tech company, and can communicate with Alexa and display information in the wearer’s field of view. Unlike Google’s Glass, which had a small camera on top of a lens, Vuzix’s glasses are designed to resemble typical eyewear, according to media reports.

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Xconomy

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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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

Today a virtual version of the ASCO conference, the cancer field’s largest, kicks off, with oncologists and others tuning in from throughout the country and around the world to check out the latest in cancer research.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2020

Day holiday away from the office and others recovered from back-to-back meetings and late nights at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. Company news slowed somewhat this week, perhaps as some took the federal Martin Luther King Jr. The World Health Organization is debating whether to declare a global public health emergency.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The name of the experimental drug was heard so frequently in hotel hallways at the conference that it sounded like an incantation: aducanumab, aducanumab, aducanumab.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But a startup contest held Tuesday at a machine learning conference in Cambridge, MA, put a twist on the typical scenario: the startups were judged by an artificial intelligence software program, instead of a panel of investors. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2020

Perhaps the most talked-about news at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week was a new startup that launched with $200 million and an ambitious claim its first drug would be approved within five years, and 10 more within as many years.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The brain has stymied many efforts to develop new neuroscience drugs, leading a number of big pharmaceutical companies to pull back on such R&D work. Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ) is ending its research and early development programs in neuroscience, the company announced during a conference call to discuss third-quarter financial results.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival. Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2018

This year, the mobility sector had its largest presence at CES yet. Self-driving tech was well-represented in the CES innovation awards , and news announcements from the sector were plentiful. Here, we’ve rounded up five of the most significant mobility advances from. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A Roche drug in development as a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy achieved the main goals of a key study, helping to build the case that the drug could challenge a Biogen therapy already approved for the rare disorder. The Basel, Switzerland-based company plans to present full data from the study at a future medical conference.

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Xconomy

JUNE 5, 2018

The American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, the world’s largest cancer conference, wraps up today in Chicago. Investors have dissected the data, picked winners and losers, and sent some biotech stocks soaring and others tumbling.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. As the San Diego Union Tribune reported in 2013, Tsien (pictured) was also unafraid to shine the spotlight on what he considered suspect scientific approaches, even when espoused by legends like DNA co-discoverer James Watson.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, which takes its name from the botany term for the part of a plant embryo that develops into the primary root, was founded by a mix of agricultural investment and industry heavyweights. Radicle’s physical presence includes sites in San Diego; Palo Alto, CA; Research Triangle Park; parts of the Midwest; and Israel.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The firm will now focus on its miniLab, which CEO Elizabeth Holmes touted as a follow-on version of its Edison test system at a scientific conference in August. —Sarepta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SRPT ) struck a second deal in as many weeks to develop combination therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Watson Health is teaming up with 16 partners, which include imaging and diagnostics company Hologic; Sentara Healthcare; Sheridan Healthcare; UC San Diego Health; University of Miami Health System; and Merge Healthcare, which was acquired by IBM last year and is now part of Watson Health.

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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. It also is a burgeoning sector.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Two years ago at the American Society of Hematology conference, excitement, not blood, was running in the streets of San Francisco. For some developers the momentum continues, with two programs—one for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, one for kids with a type of leukemia—likely up for an FDA approval decision next year.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

This is the right time for a new leader to take the reins and lead Biogen through its next stage of development, and I look forward to returning to the West coast to take on one more set of activities and spend more time with my family.”. Biogen is holding a conference call this morning to discuss its quarterly earnings.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The Pasadena, CA-based urban office real estate investment trust (REIT), founded in 1994, has grown into one of the country’s largest developers of world-class collaborative science and technology campuses. from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Since then, the San Diego company has built a thriving business as a contract research organization (CRO) that tests experimental drug compounds on bio-printed liver tissue. The company announced this week that it has developed a similar testing service for screening pre-clinical drug candidates on living human kidney tissue.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

—As the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference kicked off in Orlando, FL, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ) said a key part of its plan to defend its industry-leading cystic fibrosis franchise is moving forward. It’s the first time a cancer immunotherapy has been approved in a first-line setting. CYSTIC FIBROSIS SHOWDOWN.

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