Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

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. 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.

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2018

He began to write about the possibility that a drug could act like a magische kugel —magic bullet—that killed only the organism causing disease, and nothing else.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2019

Connect, a 34-year-old nonprofit which runs the well-known Springboard Accelerator Program for startups, announced Monday that it had tapped Silvia Mah, a San Diego investor and entrepreneur, as its new president. Mah is executive director of Hera Labs, an accelerator program for women-owned businesses.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

No one would argue that San Diego is overflowing with venture capitalists in the way, say, the San Francisco Bay Area is. But, at least once yearly, that changes, and the community gets to hear insights from prominent outside VCs firsthand. The idea was to get more local startups an.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

An organization representing venture capital firms filed a federal suit in Washington, DC, on Tuesday accusing Trump Administration officials of unlawfully delaying a program that would have allowed international entrepreneurs to work at companies they founded within the United States.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs).

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You look at a dog, and see his eyes, and think he’s cute,” says Tama Lundquist, co-president of Houston PetSet, an organization that works with about 70 animal shelters in the Houston area. Too many people treat pet adoption like a one-night stand. But if you’re a couch potato and he likes to run, that’s not going to work out.”

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Worse: After World War II, one Providence neighborhood became the nerve center of New England organized crime and one of its mayors the ne plus ultra of civic corruption—twice elected, and twice a felon. But the same mayor, Vincent A.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east. Alexandria already has its own venture arm, Alexandria Venture Investments, and is a co-founder of Accelerator Corp., The company’s presence in key clusters around the U.S. First, the real estate.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, the industry has entered a crucial phase where blockchain developers need to overcome the limitations of the technology and find use cases that will win widespread adoption by businesses and organizations.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

From Facebook to Microsoft to the NIH, organizations keep working to push forward the uses of A.I. Fear not: Xconomy has done the work for you, bringing a smattering of some of the most interesting reads out there. This week, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence, one of the buzziest fields in tech. Here are a.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

View the Slideshow On November 4-6, Xconomy organized a meeting of the minds—an elite gathering of leaders in technology, business, healthcare, education, and energy—to discuss and demonstrate the key trends in their fields, heading into next year.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2019

Come celebrate milestones the internet has made over the past 50 years at a special event called Net@50 on July 16 in Cambridge, MA, organized by the World Frontiers Forum and Xconomy. An afternoon forum at the MIT Media Lab will explore the big issues and challenges surrounding the internet.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2020

The World Health Organization is debating whether to declare a global public health emergency. Day holiday away from the office and others recovered from back-to-back meetings and late nights at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. The first confirmed US case is a Seattle resident who recently returned from a trip to Wuhan.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

The big guys are starting to figure out that they can’t really innovate well enough within their own organization,” says Robyn Metcalfe, director of Food+City , a multi-departmental. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

We each organized our own clothing on either side, but since we both wore the same size in clothing and shoes, we “shopped” for outfits in either section. As college undergraduates, my roommate and I had what we called a “monowardrobe.” That’s how we described the contents of the closet that lined a wall in our dorm room.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

including the first approval of a CAR-T cellular immunotherapy , the first smartphone app to treat substance abuse , and the first approval of a cancer drug based on genetic signature instead of the tumor’s organ of origin. It’s been a year of biomedical milestones in the U.S.,

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Three researchers shared the physiology and medicine prize for their work shining light on the circadian rhythms that govern the wake-and-sleep cycles of all organisms. The 2017 Nobel Prizes with a biomedical bent were announced this week.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But not all costs: Attendees are on the hook for about $4,000, according to organizers.) The training will focus on board-level problems such as fiduciary responsibility, corporate strategy, and legal liability, according to the organizers. percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2020

COVID-19’s spread has clamped down on a lot of economic activity, including the work of developing and testing new medicines. But the FDA isn’t showing signs of slowing down, at least when it comes to drugs filed for accelerated approval. The regulator signed off on three such drugs in the past week.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

A new organization called Ada-AI, which is based in. “Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

Forgacs and his father, Gabor Forgacs, a University of Missouri professor of biological physics, are also co-founders of San Diego-based Organovo (NYSE: ONVO ), which uses 3D printing technology to create functional, 3D human tissues for use in medical research and therapeutic applications. There’s no cow involved.”. million.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2018

Athena Club plans to offer two lines, organic and. “We’re not sacrificing quality, but we are bringing the price [down] so that many more women can afford” to purchase the subscription, Markina says. We’re also giving women the ability to customize among multiple sizes and different frequencies.”

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

. —Xconomy reported Monday that Tom Daniel, Celgene’s (NASDAQ: CELG ) former president of research and early development, left the Summit, NJ, company over the summer to start Catalysis Advisors in San Diego. Jenkins was one of many FDA staffers who stood against the approval. His slides are here.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

More body cameras might deter police when they’re tempted to use excessive force—or support an officer’s side of the story—but they won’t cure systemic racism, in which law enforcement organizations are merely a participant, not a first cause.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Lori Deschene – Founder of Tiny Buddha.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

First at the University of Chicago and then MIT’s Whitehead Institute, Lindquist helped biologists see that all kinds of organisms—including ourselves—share errors of protein folding and can shed light onto human disease. She was 67.

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