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Amgen Backs Bay Area Life Science Incubator

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Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen has put its backing behind a new, life sciences incubator, called QB3@953. According to Amgen, it will provide a five year, platinum sponsorship of the San Francisco life sciences incubator, to accelerate the development of new therapies to improve human health. READ MORE>>.

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Amgen Lines Up Behind Two Bay Area Startups

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Thousand Oaks-based Amgen is helping two, Bay Area startups, by offering up lab space and access to its scientific and business leaders, as part of a program called the "Amgen Golden Ticket", the company said on Tuesday. Amgen says it has been been sponsoring MBC BioLabs since 2016.

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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? The Center is designed to be a hub for the start-up community along the Westlake Village  Thousand Oaks corridor. gerhard apfelthaler education incubator' I have to be a little self-promoting on this one. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014?

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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

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Plans for new incubators were announced in two different cities. The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. The nation’s biggest annual cancer meeting took place in Chicago, while biotech’s trade group held its annual confab in San Francisco.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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in the company's efforts to start a commercial space tourism industry. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. It looks like people either loved, or really hated, the companies we featured. Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies - Also in November, we published.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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We spoke with Mike Outmesguine , CEO and Alan DeRossett , CTO of the company, and how their roots in do-it-yourself, "Maker" projects is key to their entry into the prize competition. The company actually was working on a different project which had dried up at that point, and it was just natural to step into this at that point.

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