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$100M For Talaris Gives Surgeon a Shot to Reinvent Organ Transplants

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When Novartis dissolved its gene and cell therapy unit a few years ago, a bunch of projects the Swiss pharma giant had incubated were tossed aside. One of them was the work of surgeon Suzanne Ildstad, who has spent decades trying to develop a new way to improve the health outcomes of patients who need organ transplants.

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Agtech Startup GroGuru Gets Audience Kudos at EvoNexus Demo Day

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Three wildly different startups among those incubating at EvoNexus, a La Jolla, CA-based nonprofit organization that supports early-stage tech companies, earned top marks from the audience at a pitch contest this week. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Mission Edge Taps 10 Businesses for “Social Enterprise” Accelerator

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Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability. Ken Davenport, CEO of San Diego-based Mission.

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Biotech Roundup: BIO on Racism, AbbVie Antibodies, IPO Surge & More

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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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SDSI Accelerator For Sports Startups Gets Qualcomm Foundation Boost

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SDSI, a nonprofit organization based north of San Diego in coastal Solana Beach, focuses on advancing companies that involve sports, active lifestyles, health, and wellness.

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Hungry for Innovation, Big Food Firms Seek Alliances With Startups

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The firms include stalwarts like Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC ) , which has an incubator and accelerator program called Springboard , and relative newcomers like the Greek-style yogurt maker Chobani , which operates an incubator that makes $25,000 investments in startups with no equity stake.

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Connect Taps Tega Therapeutics CEO, Springboard Grad as Chairman

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Connect, the longstanding nonprofit organization that runs one of San Diego’s best-known startup accelerator programs, said Thursday that Tega Therapeutics CEO Tim Scott will become chairman of its board of directors on Dec. Scott has a long history with the organization.