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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Santa Monica-based Headspace Health, which provides a digital mental health platform, is trying to encourage some third party, external research into the impact of its products, through a new "External Research Collaborator Program". According to the company, the program allows academic researchers, non-profits, govegencies, healthcare institutions, and other researchers to submit proposals to conduct scientific studies using the Headspace app.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

to create a research center focused on privacy and security issues related to machine learning and artificial intelligence USC is partnering with Amazon.com Inc.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

El Segundo-based Pacific Defense , which is backed by private equity investors Emerald Lake Capital Management and HCI Equity Partners, has acquired New Hamphire-based Spear Research. pacific defense spear research merger acquisition private equity aerospaceFinancial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Irvine-based ,a href="[link] Research, a provider of molecular biology tools, says it has donated one million COVID-19 testing kits to a molecular diagnostics company in Hyderabad, India. Zymo Research says its particular test can perform COVID-19 testing without extraction; therefore, removing the barrier of limited extraction resources. zymo research covid-19 testing covid19 pandemic biotech lifescience

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JANUARY 25, 2021

evid science genesis research artificial intelligence lifescience merger acquisitionLos Angeles-based Evid Science.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Therapeutic Research Center, which is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity investor Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, says it has acquired NetCE, a Roseville-based provider of continuing education resources for the healthcare industry. levine leichtman therapeutic research center netice merger acquisition

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A Boston-based, 3D printing technology developer, Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) said today that it is opening up a brand new, research and development center in San Diego. According to BMF, the new BMF Research Institute is being formed specifically to develop and incubate end-product ideas that are uniquely enabled by its micro-3D printing platform.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

as its Senior Vice President of Research. Milla was most recently at Adaptive Biotechnologies, and also has served at GlaxoSmithKline, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Roche Palo Alto, and Janssen Research & Development. synthorx protein therapeutics biotech synthetic biology lifescience executive marcos milla research

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Terrakan said today that it has launched an online platform, aimed at helping homeowners and realtors to generate reports, perform listing research, and network with other people. property realestate realtor homeowner research estate real terrakanThe company is targeting real estate developers and investors, single family buyers, owners, or "flippers", and others with its service. The company's website says it currently only serves Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

San Diego-based ProSciento , a clinical research organization (CRO) which focuses on non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), diabetes, obesity, and related metabolic diseases, has raised a round of funding, the company said this week. prosciento clinical research organization venture capital diabetes metabolic

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JANUARY 3, 2018

San Diego-based Maravai LifeSciences announced this morning that it is acquiring Glen Research Corporation , a Sterling, Virginia-based provider of reagents used in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Maravai LifeSciences is a provider of specialty reagents to the research, biotherapeutics, and OEM market, and is owned by private equity firm GTCR. maravai lifesciences glen research merger acquisition biotherapeutics

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AUGUST 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based SuperMetalix , a UCLA technology spinout developer super-hard metals, said today that it has named Dr. Kesh Keshavan as the company's Director of Development, to head up the company's research and development efforts. supermetalix research development metals metallurgy materials spinout ucla executive

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APRIL 11, 2017

Irvine-based MFour Mobile Research , a developer of mobile survey and research software, announced today that it has raised $5M in a new funding round. According to the company, the funding will go towards scaling technology and research staff. market panel fund ventures newroad kaynew capital venture survey research mobile mfour

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

university, the California Institute of Technology has received a massive, $750M pledge from entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick, to go to environmental sustainability research. The entrepreneurs--who own The Wonderful Company--will go towards research into what Caltech says are the "most pressing challenges" in environmental sustainability. The gift is the largest ever received in Caltech's history, and the largest ever for environmental sustainability research.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Newport Beach-based Wave Neuroscience , a newly formed startup, says it has acquired a number of assets from Newport Brain Research Laboratory (NBRL), along with "many different onshore and offshore holding companies" owned by NBRL, as part of its efforts to provide non-invasive neuromodulation technology. Financial details of the acquisition of Newport Brain Research Laboratories were not announced. wave neuroscience newport brain research laboratory nbrl

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

in an upgrade of its Burbank research and technology center. burbank research coatings specialty materials growth expansionPPG , a $15.4 billion developer of paints, coatings and specialty materials based in Pittsburgh, says it has invested $15.5M

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

San Antonio — Life science groups, city officials, and research institutes in San Antonio are organizing an effort to commercialize more scientific developments coming out of the city’s military organizations. Army Institute of Surgical Research University of Texas at San Antonio University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio VelocityTX

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JULY 8, 2013

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation reported late Friday that it has shuffled its CEO. In a statement, Acacia Research said that Ryan recently turned 68, and has been at Acacia Research for the last thirteen years. Vella joined Acacia in 2006, having previously served at such firms as ATI Research and Nortel Networks. executive property intellectual licensing patent research acacia

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Scientific equipment maker Agilent is funding a new scientific research center at the University of Southern California , focused on biomedical research, through a new scientific collaboration. lifescience michelson research biotech instrumentation scientific agilentAccording to Agilent, it is working with the University of Southern California (USC) Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience to create an Agilent Center of Excellence (CoE) in Biomolecular Characterization.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research , which is developing targeted RNAi biopharmaceuticals, said late Thursday that it has named Patrick O''Brien as the company''s new General Counsel. arrowhead research general counsel rnai biopharma lifescience executive legal O''Brien had most recently been Group Vice President, Legal, for Shire, and also had served at Johnson & Johnson, at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and in private practice. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Scripps Research is charting new territory with its Calibr division, a drug discovery and drug development group within the research institute that is advancing its own experimental treatments.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

San Diego-based MemComputing , a startup working on high performance computing technology, says it has been selected to join the Air Force Research Laboratory's Catalyst Space Accelerator , being held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. memcomputing force research accelerator afrl military defense startup software

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MAY 14, 2018

ucla leica microscopy research scientific discovery university california angeles educationThe California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and scientific equipment developer Leica Microsystems said on Friday that the two have linked together with a new "center of excellence in microscopy".

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Newport Beach-based patent storehouse Acacia Research said today that it has named Matthew Vella as President of the firm. Vella has been at Acacia Research Group since 2006, and has been serving as Executive Vice President since October of last year. Prior to Acacia, Vella had served at ATI Research and Nortel Networks. acacia research patent legal executive president

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

It is a commonly held belief that academic research institutions, including those in New York City, are fierce competitors. In some ways, that may be true: Universities battle with each other to matriculate the best students, attract and retain the world’s leading faculty, and win the most research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

as its new Vice President of Clinical Research. Erickson was previously Senior Director Clinical Sciences Ophthalmology at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and also has served at Unigene Laboratories and Opthalmic Research Associates, in addition to experience at Tufts University Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. aerie pharmaceuticals research executive medical lifescience kristine erickson

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

A researcher behind the popular Ethereum cryptocurrency has been arrested in Los Angeles, and charged with helping North Korea to evade sanctions, according to CNN on Tuesday. The researcher--Virgil Griffith--had been arrested on Friday at Los Angeles International Airport. Griffith is a researcher with the Ethereum Foundation in Switzerland. ethereum researcher arrest crime criminal justice department cryptocurrency brock pierce bitcoin

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MARCH 28, 2019

Redlands-based geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping software developer Esri , best known for its flagship software, ArcGIS, said this morning that it has opened up a new research and development center in India. esri india expansion research jobs employment development software arcgis

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AUGUST 28, 2020

GTI and West Virginia University Research Corporation, which will advance fuel cell technology for on-road trucking and transit, near-zero emissions natural gas technology for rail locomotives, and best practices to reduce maintenance costs for alternative fuel vehicles. SoCalGas said it will supply an additional $730,000 in funding via its Research, Development, & Demonstration department for those efforts. socalgas energy emissions vehicle research grant department

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JULY 26, 2019

Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017, has been sentenced to supervised release for one year on charges of making and selling the Kronos banking malware. Since the attack, however, Hutchins received additional acclaim for his malware research on new infections and botnet activities.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent licensing firm, said today that it has named David Witt as Vice President of Acacia Research Group LLC. Acacia Research acquires and aggressively licenses technology patents. semiconductor executive legal patent research acaciaWitt joins the firm from Texas Instruments, where the company said he was involved in architecture and development of TI's OMAP2, OMAP3, and OMAP4 application processors.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research , which develops biotherapeutics and other technology, announced today that it has named Bruce Given, M.D., Sandoz Research Institute, and Schering-Plough Corporation. arrowhead research executive biopharma pharmaceutical lifescienceas its Chief Operating Officer. Given was previously CEO of Leonardo Biosystems, and also has been on the board of Calando Pharmaceuticals, one of Arrowhead's subsidiaries, as well as ICON plc.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Santa Barbara-based optical circuit switching technology devleoper CALIENT Technologies said today that it has linked up with a 10-university research organization, to expand the use of optical circuit switching in software defined data center and metro networks. The company said it has linked up with the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) to help bolster research in optical networks. calient technologies university research optical networking network

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

spacex moon mars development nasa research grant fueling fuel marshall aerospace rocketHawthorne-based SpaceX has received a $3M contract from NASA, to go towards some of its work aimed at space exploration on the Moon and Mars, NASA said this week. The award was one of a number of awards given to 14 companies, announced by NASA for its Tipping Point program.

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JULY 11, 2018

million grant from the United States Department of Energy of to advance research in rechargeable batteries University of California–Los Angeles has received a $9.75

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The startup has also collected information to construct a research-backed guide to holistic health, something the team believes has been missing from the natural health sector. then affirms the providers use research-backed methods and that they have vetted peer references and clients who can provide positive feedback. Goop is cashing in on pseudoscience and, in the process, giving natural health practices a bad name.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

ACADIA said the new funds will go towards research being conducted in collaboration with Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl of UCLA. acadia pharmaceuticals venture capital biotech lifescience multiple sclerosis ucla research biomedical

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MAY 12, 2016

The University of Southern California has just received a huge, $200M donation from Oracle founder Larry Ellison , to create a new cancer treatment research center. larry ellison cancer research medicine transformative gift donation nonprofit oracle founderAccording to the school, the donation will create the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC , a multi-disciplinary center focused on the prevention and treatment of cancer.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

According to the firm, the enhanced service allows users to add multiple suppliers of survey respondents to their market research projects, including both SampleMarket-sourced panelists as well as external sources; new toools to remove duplicate, fake, and other low-quality respondents from research samples; and more. uSamp's services are used by companies to conduct market research and surveys. usamp sampling market research self service

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The new products include a product for analyzing RNA; a panel for identifying somatic mutations in myeloid malignancies; plus software apps specifically aimed at cancer research. The company said the goal of the new products is to expand use of its sequencing systems beyond basic research and into clinical research for oncology. illumina lifescience genetic genomic oncology cancer research sequencing gene genes

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced plans today to open a research and development center in Toulouse, France

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market research data. A common excuse I hear from entrepreneurs for not doing the work is that real market research takes too much time, and costs too much money. Conduct your own customized market research. business plan market research opportunity startup

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JULY 22, 2014

NewEgg said that Digitech Image Technologies LLC--a subsidiary of Acacia Research--had sued Xerox, Toshiba, Fujifilm, Ricoh, Overstock.com, and Newegg for patent infringement over the patent, which had previously been owned by Polaroid. Acacia Research is based in Newport Beach, and acquires patents and aggressively licenses them to companies; the company is no stranger to patent infringement lawsuits and countersuits.

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