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NantKwest Names VP Of Adult Medical Affairs

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Culver City-based immunotherapy developer NantKwest , which is led by biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, said last week that it has named John Lee, MD FACS, as Senior Vice President fo Adult Medical Affair. READ MORE>>.

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Local Startup Takes New Twist On Employee Morale, Sets Up Fight Club

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Instead, the executives over at Culver City-based Fonality decided on something different: a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) tournament between its employees. Most companies, when they're looking to raise company morale, might set up a company picnic, Friday night beer bash, or maybe go on a ski trip.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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I wrote WiFiToys, a do-it-yourself how to build yourself stuff out of scratch, and started Crashspace, the Makerspace in Culver City. We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done.

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