Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio)

About SoCalBio

The Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio) is the trade association of the life-science industry in the Greater Los Angeles region.

SoCalBio represents and promotes the medical device and biotechnology industries in Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire and communities located in the Gold Coast of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties for job creation and economic development.

Notice New Address (as of September 1st, 2012):

617 South Olive Street, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90014
800-418-7079 (phone)
213-403-7688 (fax)
scbc@socalbio.org

Featuring Next Gen. Medtech, Biotech & eHealth Companies
To sponsor or make a business presentation, contact SoCalBio at 800-418-7079 ext 1 or scbc@socalbio.org

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SoCalBio represents a region that is home to 900+ bioscience companies employing 80,000 + people

Access a map of bioscience employment by congressional district

Bioscience Industry Adds Jobs Over the Past Decade

A recent report by Battelle Technology Partnership shows that:

The bioscience industry now employs about 1.6 million people throughout the US.
The industry added Jobs Over the Last Decade,
Despite Economic Setbacks for the Nation
Bioscience jobs grew by 6.4% from 2001to 2010, while overall economy recorded a 2.9% decline in jobs
The industry remains challenged by continuing tight capital markets and need For regulatory reform .... Learn more

Sponsored Event

SoCalBio Encourages its Membership to Attend the Following Event

think ASIA, think HONG KONG

June 14, 2013, Starting at 8:15 am

J W Marriott in Downtown Los Angeles

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Organized by SoCalBio's international partner the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), this event is designed to promote Hong Kong as Asia's central business district, the first stop for overseas companies entering the Asian market, and the global gateway to China .

Join SoCalBio at think ASIA, think HONG KONG to tap resources that will help you succeed in Asia.. Learn more

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SoCalBio Networking Forum
May 30, 4 to 7 pm
Conference Room of the USC Stem Cell Research Institute at the USC Health Sciences Campus in East Los Angeles

Groundbreaking Technologies to
Reverse Blindness

Keynote Presenter

Robert Greenberg, MD, PhD
President & CEO
Second Sight Product Corporation

Join us to get a glimpse of how SoCalBio members are changing the face of medicine. Learn about Second Sight's FDA-approved and first-in-breed bionic eye -- the Argus II -- that restores some vision to people suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa.

The Argus II is:

An example of new technologies under development in Southern California that promise to reverse blindness.
A demonstration of the virtuous outcome of effective local university/industry collaborations
The latest in a long string of many biomedical breakthrough innovations made in the Greater Los Angeles region since the 1930s that changed the face of medicine and improved patient care.
Another landmark contribution to medicine by Los Angeles biomedical entrepreneur, philanthropist and SoCalBio Chairman Emeritus Alfred E. Mann.

The SoCalBio Networking Forums bring together leaders from all segments of the life-science industry to share insights and learn about:

Innovation best practices
Device and biotech business trends
Technology convergence opportunities, and
Broad-reaching public policies shaping the commercialization of innovations and healthcare service delivery in the U.S. and abroad.

Thanks to Mixer Sponsors & Underwriters

BioGENEius Winners

California Students Sweep International BioGENEius Award Competition

The Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio) congratulates California high school students who dominated the 2013 International BioGENEius Award Competition, held this week in tandem with the International BIO Convention in Chicago. The annual competition is staged by the Biotechnology Institute in collaboration with regional trade organizations (including SoCalBio) from around the world. The goal is to honor and draw attention to outstanding research in biotechnology performed by high school students.... Read Press Release

Talent Development

SoCalBio Contributes to Biotech/Biopharma Talent Development in Southern California:

Industry to Develop Valley College Biomanufacturing Technician Training Program

The San Fernando Business Journal covers the SoCalBio-initiated and DOL-funded three-year project that establishes the Community College Consortium for Biosciences Credentials. This project will be centered at Los Angeloes Valley College in the San Fernando Valley. The project's objective is to develop core bio-manufacturing competencies and introduce stackable and latticed credentials to help trade-impacted workers get new jobs..... Click here to access the article

Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding for Life Sciences Companies

George Colindres of the Law firm Perkins Coie shares some of the ideas discussed regarding crowdfunding as a capital formation strategy during the SoCalBio Networking Forum held at UCLA on Feb 28, 2013. Although focused on life sciences companies, many of the issues are applicable to tech companies too ... Read more

New SoCalBio Members

Globizz (Gardena)

Globizz is an international consulting company with extensive experience in cross-border business. The company provides strategic planning and risk management services to Japanese companies interested in expansion in the US and American companies interested in doing business in Japan... Learn more

Interlean LLC (Lawndale)

Interlean is created by Mr William Botha, formerly with Baxter Biosciences and Avrio Biopharmaceuticals, to offer Lean deployment services customized to fit the needs of the tightly regulated pharmaceutical and medical device companies ...learn more

Quantason (Los Angeles)

Quantason has developed a revolutionary, next-generation bi-modal (US/IDUS) platform technology which fundamentally changes the utilization of conventional ultrasound both as a modality for diagnostic imaging and as an active screening method ... Learn more

Amethyst Life Sciences

@ the New Ventura BioCenter (Thousand Oaks)

Amethyst Life Sciences, Inc., is a privately-funded company whose mission is to enable new start-up businesses in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceutical science, nanotechnology, and materials science ... Learn more

Exact Staff, Inc. (Woodland Hills)

Exact Staff is a healthcare and medical device staffing service provider. The company will be represented in SoCalBio by its CEO Ms. Karen Goodwin kgoodwin@exactstaff.com ... Learn more

Kite Pharmaceuticals (Los Angeles)

Kite is a UCLA spin-off that is

advancing a portfolio of proprietary product candidates designed to leverage and enhance the patient's own immune system to fight tumor cells ... Learn more

Tempest Technologies (Los Angeles)

Tempest Technologies is a professional services firm devoted to advancing the objectives of government, non-governmental organizations and private industry clients through quantitative research methods, mathematical and statistical modeling and analysis, and software engineering and development ....Learn more

Racer Technology (Singapore)

Established in December 1988, Racer Technology specializes in manufacturing of high quality precision plastic components and sub assemblies for medical device and other industries.... Learn more

Micro Quality Labs (Burbank)

Micro Quality Labs offers a comprehensive range of contract testing services to the Cosmetic, Nutritional, Pharmaceutical, OTC and household products industries ... Learn more

Public Policy

SoCalBio Participated in BIO's Legislative Day in Washington DC

On March 13, a SoCalBio team along with about 200 representatives of biotech companies and various regional industry associations participated in the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual Legislative Day in Washington DC. This event involved meetings with legislators in the House and Senate about the importance of the biotechnology industry to our future and how to best protect and grow the life-science industry in the United States. The SoCalBio team included the following participants:

Ahmed Enany, President & CEO, SoCalBio

Charlie Fritts, BIO

Sean Caffey, Md, President & CEO, Replenish Inc.

Carla Mann-Woods, VP, Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research

Mitchell Goldstein, M.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital

Robert Cowan, MD, Founder, ProMyHealth

Karen Josephson, MD, Sage Healthcare

Karen Jaffe, MS, MBA, RAC, Consultant

In various meetings with congressional representatives from Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and the Inland Empire, the SoCalBio team (1) protested any proposed cuts to Medicare Parts B & D, (2) advocated for stronger financial support of NIH and other federal agencies offering extramural funding for life science research, (3) called for incentives to help emerging companies raise capital and cross the "valley of death" faster, and (4) strongly argued for fully funding the FDA to ensure faster approval of drugs and devices . ..Learn more

Leadership

SoCalBio Adds Two Bioscience Women

to its Board of Directors

During its quarterly meeting on Thursday, May 24 at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, members of the SoCalBio Board of Directors unanimously elected Jennifer Neff, PhD, CEO of the Orange County-based Allvivo Vascular and Denise (Dee Dee) DeMan, Chairman & CEO of the Beverly Hills-based Bench International to the Board.

Jennifer has a PhD degree in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. After serving as a PostDoc Fellow at the Center for Human Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, she was recruited in 2000 to serve as Medical Director of Allvivo, Inc., the predecessor to Allvivo Vascular. In 2005, she became the Chief Technology Officer of Allvivo after its restructuring as Allvivo Vascular. In 2008, Jennifer took the helm at the company as a CEO .. Read more about Allvivo Vascular

Dee Dee has taken Bench from its founding in 1974 to its eminence today as one of the most successful specialized retained executive search firms in the world. "Dee Dee" is deeply committed to properly "shattering" the glass ceiling for women in the life sciences ... Read more