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Caltech, UCLA, UCSD Rank Highly On Tech Transfer Ranking

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The California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of San Diego (UCSD) have all ranked very highly on a new ranking of universities for their technology transfer efforts, issued by The Milken Insitute , the Santa Monica-based thinktank.

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Prometheus Laboratories, UCLA In Research Deal

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San Diego-based Prometheus Laboratories , a developer of specialty pharmaceuticals, and the Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, said Thursday night that they are in a exclusive research agreement. Financial details of the research deal were not disclosed.

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Human Longevity Names Interim CEO and COO

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San Diego-based Human Longevity , which is developing genomics-powered, health intelligence software, said on Friday that it has named David Karow, M.D., Karow has previously been a researcher at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. as its Interim CEO.

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Enlibrium Finds $15M For Cancer Drugs

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San Diego-based Enlibrium announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in a Series A financing, to go towards cancer therapeutics. The funding was led by Avalon Ventures and TPG Biotech, and also included Correlation Ventures and Osage University Partners. Enlibrium said the technology has been exclusively licensed from UCLA.

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Steve Poizner Boots Up New Southern California Tech Nonprofit

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Steve Poizner , the former California gubernatorial candidate and former founder of SnapTrack (which he sold to San Diego's Qualcomm), says he has created a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation , which will focus on further developing Southern California's entrepreneurial ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

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Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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Initiative to Boost SoCal’s Startup Scene Teams With GV Founder

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A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.