Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2020

At the start of 2020 thousands of biotechies anticipated spending the second week of June in San Diego, hobnobbing at the annual conference hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. There, topics once as unanticipated as the remote nature of the meeting shared top billing: COVID-19 and racism.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”.

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

Preliminary findings from an economic impact study show that genomics is emerging as a distinct innovation cluster in San Diego. The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. began collecting data for the report earlier this year in a bid to assess how genomics fits into San Diego’s innovation economy.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference, according to investor the Foundry Group. Along with Foundry, both Madrona Ventures and San Diego's Avalon Ventures were investors in the round. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 22, 2020

EvoFem (NASDAQ: EVFM )—and the rest of the women’s health sector—will know by midyear whether the product will be approved, making the San Diego companies one of the few biotechs to commercialize a novel prescription women’s health product in recent years.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This weekend, San Diego will host the annual American Society of Hematology conference, the largest U.S. [ Note: Ben Fidler co-authored this report.]

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2017

The San Diego biotech company Synthetic Genomics and supermajor ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM ) said today they have successfully inserted a gene in a particular strain of algae that more than doubled its oil content without slowing down the algae’s rate of growth. [ Updated 6/19/17 1:17 pm. See below. ]

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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

JULY 24, 2018

Come join us at our newest interactive conference, XCON: The Xconomy Conference on Technology and Transformation. This fall, we are convening exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists for an in-depth exploration of the innovation ecosystem and its impact on the future.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 20, 2020

EvoFem (NASDAQ: EVFM )—and the rest of the women’s health sector—will know by midyear whether the product will be approved, making the San Diego companies one of the few biotechs to commercialize a novel prescription women’s health product in recent years.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Yet San Diego-based Tocagen (NASDAQ: TOCA ) says five patients in a high-dose cohort of its gene therapy treatment Toca 511 and Toca FC are still alive after nearly 36 months. Three-year survival rates are rarely reported for a deadly form of brain cancer known as recurrent, high-grade glioma (HGG).

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Ciara Kennedy, who succeeded Mike Grey as Amplyx CEO late last year, said in an interview with Xconomy that the company plans to report results of its Phase 1 study at IDWeek, the annual infectious diseases conference that is set for early October in San Diego. But raising $67.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2018

At the National Retail Federation’s three-day conference, which ended Tuesday, the discussion centered on both the disruptive effects and potential promise of e-commerce technologies. Technology took center stage this week as the nation’s retailers made their annual pilgrimage to New York. How that identity expands will.

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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.

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

The conference typically focuses on early research and clinical work, not the big trials that can change the way doctors practice medicine and that compete for headline space at conferences like the American Society for Clinical Oncology. But AACR has its fair share of notable news, events, and reports.

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Xconomy

JUNE 7, 2019

Welcome to conference week. As the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting wrapped up in Chicago, the annual BIO conference kicked off in Philadelphia, and a deep dive into diabetes begins today in San Francisco. That’s not an official moniker, but is there any busier time on the biopharma calendar?

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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. But it offered few specifics about how it would achieve those goals.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

At the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Barcelona this weekend a number of drug makers trotted out some of their latest advances in immunotherapy, targeted pills, drug combinations, and more. The treatment landscape for lung cancer has shifted significantly over the past few years , and more changes could be on the way.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In an after-dinner review at the American Society for Hematology conference in San Diego, however, company executives spent most of their time touting other products in their pipeline for other cancers, in what sounded like the first step of a sharp pivot.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the 10 years since David Inns joined San Diego-based GreatCall as CEO, he has seen a proliferation of innovative healthtech startups that are targeting baby boomers who are in or nearing retirement. conference held in San Francisco earlier this month.

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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

JUNE 26, 2019

The San Diego company said Tuesday that it would sell 2.1 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.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The world’s biggest annual cancer conference is just around the corner. Data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting each year can change medical practice and make or break companies whose drugs are under the microscope.

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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. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2019

Morgan Healthcare Conference and everything that mushrooms around it seem just as long as the holiday break—a distant memory!—that In 2020 (yes, that’s really a year), San Francisco might have a new mayor. It is here, and then it is gone. —that came just before.

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Xconomy

APRIL 1, 2020

The 33-person company managed to land the funding amid tenuous economic times by shifting into high gear directly after the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco in January, the same month the first COVID-19 cases in the US were reported, CEO Howard Federoff said.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The European Society for Medical Oncology is wrapping up its annual conference today, replete with clinical data from cancer’s front lines. [ Ben Fidler co-authored this report.]

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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

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

JANUARY 8, 2018

Alexa is now mobile. Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) is expected to unveil its first augmented-reality glasses to pair with Alexa, its digital assistant, at the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas this week.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco (see full letter below). Morgan conference, where a New York investor relations consultancy, LifeSci Advisors, hired scantily clad women to mingle with guests. The letter was published Wednesday , on the second to last day of the annual J.P.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2019

2 at a medical conference in Paris. Four years after approval the two PCSK9 blockers on the market have yet to crack $1 billion in annual sales, combined, thanks to a gloves-off effort by insurers to beat back their use. One of the two drugs might even be on life support. Now a third PCSK9 inhibitor is in the ring.

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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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