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Wet
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House Ear
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laboratory support space for
short to medium-term lease at
competitive rents. This is ideal
for startups and early-stage
companies. Learn
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Climate Change and
Business:
The ROI for Going
Green
May 7-8, 2009
Rady Center
for Executive Development
UC San Diego
(San Diego, CA)
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Momentum Weekend for
Women in Life Sciences
June
11-14 2009
Keck Graduate
Institute
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MDMA Annual
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June 1 - 3
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April 23, 7:00 - 9:30
am
 SoCalBio
Networking Forum (UCI University
Club, Irvine)
Join Prism
VentureWorks, NeoMatrix and OrthAlign to
learn about "Navigating
the Storm: Fund-Raising in the
Current Business
Environment" ... More info ..... RSVP now
June 9, 7:30 am - 5:30
pm
 Regulatory
Best Practices Workshop: FDA
Audit Preparedness (LA Chamber of
Commerce)
Learn what the latest
compliance trends in recent
FDA and State of California
inspections from device,
pharma and IVD experts. ... More info .... RSVP now
June 16, 10:00 am -
4:00 pm
 Workshop on
SBIR, STTR and Other Types
of Government Funding
Opportunities for Life
Science Companies (KGI,
Claremont)
Attend
this SoCalBio Workshop to
sharpen your grant-writing
skills and learn how to tap
various government funding
opportunities from the NIH
and DoD ...More info ....RSVP
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Upcoming
Executive Luncheons and
Roundtable Discussions
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Company Executives
Date: June 19,
11 to 2
Location: Los
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Schmid College of Science
Chapman
University
(Orange)
The
college offers traditional
majors as well as
undergraduate and graduate
degrees in natural, computational
and health sciences.... Learn
more
(San
Diego)
Life
Science and Diagnostics contract
development and manufacturing .. Learn more
(Newbury
Park)
Developing
the Micro-Magnetic Sorter (MMS),
an automated magnetophoretic
platform consisting of a bench
top instrument that processes
disposable microfluidic
cartridges. This bead-based
system provides walk-away
automation with superior purity
and recovery performance for
sample purification in life
science research applications... Learn
more
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| From
the Lab Bench |
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USC
Researcher Says Stem Cell
Infusions May Reverse Lupus
Complications
 New stem cell
research from the USC School
of Dentistry's Center for
Craniofacial Molecular Biology
and a resulting human clinical
trial from China's Nanjing
University hold great promise
for lupus patients, said
Songtao Shi (photo right),
associate professor at the USC
School of Dentistry .. Read more
UCLA Researchers
Use Combined PET/CT Scan to
Track Cancer Cells' Metabolism
 Using
a scanner that combines
positron emission tomography
(PET) and computed tomography
(CT), researchers monitored 50
patients undergoing treatment
for high-grade soft-tissue
sarcomas. The patients were
receiving neoadjuvant
chemotherapy treatments to
shrink their tumors prior to
surgery. The study led by Dr.
Fritz Eilber (photo right), an
assistant professor of
surgical oncology and director
of the Sarcoma Program at
UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center,
found that response could be
determined about a week after
the first dose of chemotherapy
drugs. Typically, patients are
scanned about three months
into chemotherapy to determine
whether the treatment is
working ... Read
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| Tech
Transfer |
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Duarte-Based City of
Hope License RNAi Technology
to Roche
 "This is
another significant licensing
agreement for City of
Hope," said Brian R.
Clark, Ph.D., director, Office
of Technology Licensing, City
of Hope. "By licensing
our intellectual property to
companies, we can harness
their expertise and resources
to translate our scientific
discoveries into potential new
therapies for patients."
The licensed RNAi technology
involves the use of short
pieces of RNA that can reduce
the function of targeted genes
by interacting with the
enzymatic complex termed
Dicer. John J. Rossi (photo
right) and colleagues at the
City of Hope invented the
licensed Dicer Substrate
technology... Read more
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| Research
Grants |
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Viral Genetics of San
Marino Pursues Promising New
Therapy for Lyme Disease With
Grant from Time for Lyme, Inc.
"This grant is the
second we have received in a
month for our work in Lyme
disease," said Haig
Keledjian, CEO of Viral Genetics.
"Obviously we could not be
happier that the research is
moving forward very rapidly and
showing great promise" ... Read more |
| Downsizing |
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Valeant
Pharmaceuticals Downsizes its
Aliso Viejo Offices
The drug maker
said in its annual report with
the Securities and Exchange
Commission that it has
exercised an option to end a
lease for its corporate
headquarters, effective
December 2011. Getting
out of its lease won't be
cheap for Valeant-the drug
maker said it recorded a
restructuring charge related
to breaking the lease of $3.8
million in 2008 .. Read more
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| Relocation |
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Vertos
Medical of San Jose Moves to
Orange County
Vertos Medical
Inc., a venture-backed maker
of devices that treat
degenerative spinal diseases,
recently moved its headquarters
to Aliso Viejo from San Jose as
it readies its first product. My
intent upon joining the company
was to grow it
commercially," said Chief
Executive James Corbett, an
Orange County resident who
joined Vertos in November.
"I thought that Orange
County would be more stable and
(a better) area to build the
company out" ... Read
more
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| Offshoring |
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Alpine Biomed of
Fountain Valley Expands in
Vietnam
Alpine Biomed has
opened a manufacturing plant in
Vietnam that will produce and
distribute medical devices used
for detecting gastroesophageal
reflux disease. The facility,
which will require about 100
workers, is part of Alpine Biomed's
plan to bolster its products and
operations ... Read more
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| Personnel |
CNS Response of Costa
Mesa Announces Leadership
Change
On
April 10, 2009, the board of
directors of CNS Response
Inc. elected
George Carpenter, currently
President of the Company, to the
position of Chief Executive
Officer, and elected Daniel
Hoffman, MD, currently Chief
Medical Officer of the Company,
to the positions of President
and Chief Medical Officer. Len
Brandt, the Company's founder
and original CEO, will no longer
serve as an officer of the
Company, but will remain on the
Board of Directors. ... Read more
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| Jobs
Available |
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LA
BioMed (Torrance)
Controller (Bachelor's
degree in Accounting, CPA or CMA
highly desirable. Five
years of progressive financial
management experience in non
profit research and/or health
care setting)
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Cut
the Cost of Doing Business
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Utilize
Iron Mountain for Document
Management, Storage and
Shredding
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| About
SoCalBio |
 SoCalBio
membership links you to
partners, contract
manufacturers, regulatory and
legal experts, and policy
makers. The organization's
programs help emerging biotech
and medical device companies
grow. Membership is affordable
-- as low as $500 -- and
offers access to networking
opportunities, advocacy,
discounts through our group
purchasing program group purchasing
program and
other benefits you simply can't
find elsewhere ... Join SoCalBio
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| Editor: Ahmed A. Enany
Southern California Biomedical
Council (SoCalBio)
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