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AUGUST 18, 2020

The San Diego company, which has touted its product candidates as safer than early-generation versions developed by other companies, announced the FDA’s decision to pause the study on Monday.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

San Diego’s Brain Corp. has a vision for developing the kind of technology that could some day be used to operate self-driving cars. Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. Brain Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

San Antonio — A biomedical product developer, Watershed Idea Foundry, has created a method of identifying medical devices that have been implanted in the body that uses 3-D printing and its own software.

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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. coli and CHO, two cell lines commonly used for protein production.

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APRIL 19, 2010

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , a developer of video encoding software, said today that it has been selected by Internet domain and web hosting firm Go Daddy. According to Sorenson Media, its products will be used to power Go Daddy's Quick Blogcast web blogging software for Mac users. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Billie, a monthly subscription service for shaving and body care products for women, has raised $25 million. Previous investors Silverton Partners, Female Founders Fund, and Lakehouse Ventures also participated in Billie’s new round, which the company says will be used for additional product development.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 7, 2019

Organovo says it has run out of money to advance its efforts to develop 3-D “patches” of living human liver tissue to tide over people waiting for an organ transplant.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Fullerton-based Hipgeo , the developers of iPhone apps for tracking and logging your travels, said today that it has launched a new version of its product which is specifically aimed at travelers. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The Medicines Company exited the infectious disease business last year when it sold three bacteria-fighting products to Melinta Therapeutics. San Diego-based Qpex has raised $33 million to advance The Medicines Company’s (NASDAQ: MDCO ) old preclinical compounds toward human testing. That company was developing.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The San Diego-based company says it wants to use the proceeds to put its lead product candidate, an investigational cancer therapy that’s based on the drug interleukin-2 (IL-2), through dose escalation and expansion trials, and to develop products based on the same compound to treat autoimmune disorders.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The experimental drug, known as AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx by Akcea and TQJ230 by the Swiss pharma giant, was discovered by Ionis , which is based near San Diego in Carlsbad, CA, and developed jointly by Ionis and Akcea. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales of Cibus’ first product, a gene-edited canola, have gone so well that the San Diego company has raised $70 million in new financing to boost its commercialization efforts. Cibus’s first commercial product is SU Canola, a variety of canola that is tolerant to sulfonylurea, a type of herbicide.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Things have been moving quickly in recent weeks for the San Diego RNA drug developer Arcturus Therapeutics. In a statement last week, Arcturus said it would work with Janssen to develop and commercialize its proprietary technologies for developing nucleic acid-based drug products for the treatment of hepatitis B.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The authors made the point that, given the size of companies today, a single garden-variety blockbuster hardly moves the needle.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2017

After raising $57 million in a Series B round of venture funding, the San Diego agricultural biotech Cibus Global is laying the groundwork to introduce its first commercial product in Canada. Cibus introduced its first enhanced crop—an herbicide-resistant strain of canola—in the U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2017

In this age of “just in time manufacturing,” entire factories might need to halt production if the right parts aren’t delivered, potentially costing thousands of dollars in delays. That’s a problem that Austin-based Riskpulse says its data service can help resolve.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2020

The company joins the public markets with four product candidates in its pipeline, all topical non-steroidal treatments being developed for seven dermatological indications. Arcutis’s IPO cash will go to advance clinical development of its experimental dermatological products. In July 2018, the company licensed.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Enterprise software startup Classy, which developed a platform through which it says nonprofit organizations have raised nearly $1 billion for their causes, has hired its first-ever chief revenue and chief product officers. The company, based in downtown San Diego, is headed by CEO Scot Chisholm.

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Xconomy

APRIL 2, 2020

One proved eerily prescient: The notion of “health security,” or the development of new products and therapies to treat health concerns before they arise or escalate. On Thursday the Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm, best known for starting and spinning out biotechs, announced it had added $1.1

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MARCH 30, 2017

Echo , a San Diego startup that has developed a digital, all-in-one microscope, says today it has closed on $7.5 million in a Series A round led by San Francisco-based Dolby Family Ventures and Southern California’s Tech Coast Angels. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 29, 2016

Scientists from Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego-based industrial biotech, have re-engineered a fast-growing microorganism found in salt marsh mud to maximize its production of proteins and to optimize other common bio-based processes. coli as a host organism. Scientists have used E. Re-engineering V. natriegens to replace E.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2017

San Diego-based ViaCyte said today it is collaborating with W.L. Gore & Associates, the privately held company that makes Gore-Tex fabrics, medical devices, and other products, in a bid to improve its stem cell-derived treatment for diabetes.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on Textio’s company blog. Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?” “OK OK Google, remind me to pay the power bill.” Alexa, tell me a joke!” Bots are eating the world. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Amid the bombast of Tuesday’s presidential debate, viewers caught some discussion about the response to the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. This production ensures that vaccine product is ready for distribution upon receiving a regulatory decision.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

With more drug development focusing on combinations of various therapies, the move is meant to have FDA evaluators and scientists from each division working more closely together. Juno, based in Seattle, is developing cancer immunotherapies that use a patient’s own live but genetically modified T cells, a key part of the immune system.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. Echo Labs image).

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Pfizer and Merck are each cutting ties with a smaller clinical-stage biotech after experimental drugs being developed under separate alliances fell short in human testing. million up front for the rights to license and develop products containing rivipansel, a compound hoped to address inflammation. In 2011, Pfizer paid $22.5

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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 28, 2016

Modern Meadow, a New York-based company that has developed a method of turning living cells into materials used to make leather that mimics animal hide, has received a $40 million Series B funding to begin manufacturing and commercializing its leather products. Eventually, the company will manufacture lower-cost versions, he says.

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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

JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund. coli bacteria and to make proteins that incorporate synthetic amino acids.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

The remaining neurology and pain sales staff will operate under the same management, a streamlining move that the company hopes will help the company better target the key physicians who prescribe the company’s products. In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals.

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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. Entrepreneurs at work on first day of Canopy San Diego accelerator program.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2020

The biggest life sciences deal this week involves a company that doesn’t discover or develop drugs, or even sell them. Yet its mark is found on pharmaceutical products spanning the entire sector. The biotechs forking over royalty rights get cash right away to continue the expensive work of developing and testing new medicines.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2020

Akcea develops drugs for rare diseases. The company currently has two commercialized products, along with others in its pipeline, some of which are in development with large. That price is a 60 percent premium to the Boston-based company’s closing stock price on Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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