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Climate Change and Business: The ROI for Going Green
May 7-8, 2009
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Momentum Weekend for Women in Life Sciences June 11-14 2009 Keck Graduate Institute
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| | RSVP Now for SoCalBio Events | Upcoming Business Mixers  May 28, 4:00 - 7:30 pmSoCalBio Networking Forum in Los Angeles ... RSVP
June 25, 7:00 - 9:30 am SoCalBio Networking Forum in Orange County ... RSVP
Upcoming Workshops June 12, 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 now
Upcoming Executive Luncheons and Roundtable Discussions  Only For Regenerative Medicine Company Executives
Date: June 19, 11 to 2 Location: Los Angeles
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| Welcome New SoCalBio Members |  Olmstead Williams Communications
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Led by President & CEO Tracy Williams (photo right), OWC Offers full-service public relations services for businesses in the healthcare and life sciences, technology, legal, accounting and other professional services sectors ....Learn more |
| From the Lab Bench | Is Twitter Shaping Your Moral Compass? Researchers from the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California conducted one of the first brain studies of the effect of digital social media, such as Twitter, to determine when they may be better suited to some mental processes. It turns out that, for some kinds of thought -- especially moral decision-making about other people's social and psychological situations -- we need to allow for adequate time and reflection to make better decisions ... Read more Caltech Scientists Show Why Anti-HIV Antibodies are Ineffective at Blocking Infection
 Pamela
Bjorkman, the Max Delbrück Professor of Biology at Caltech and Joshua Klein, a Caltech graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics may have come upon a fact explaining why the search for an HIV vacccine has been elusive. Turns out it has something to do with the length between binding sites of the antibodies and the separation of the proteins they target... Read more USC Research Suggests a New Drug to Target Tumor Cells and Blood Vessels This research has identified a new drug compound -- 2.5-dimethyl-celecoxib -- that appears to target tumor cells and surrounding blood vessels without the negative side effects typically associated with Cox-2 inhibitors... Read more |
| Financing | Visiogen of Irvine Secures $40 Million in Equity Financing Lead investor Novartis Venture Fund, along with Technology Partners, made major contributions to this round of financing, which was also strongly supported by current investors Three Arch Partners, New Leaf Venture Partners, Prospect Venture Partners, CMEA Ventures and Foundation Medical Partners ... Read more Abraxis of Los Angeles Invests $6.5M in Expression Pathology to Develop Cancer Drug-Response Dxs Expression Pathology said that it and NextGen Sciences have developed a protein biomarker assay method that can provide rapid, reproducible, quantitative measurement of protein expression in
formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue... Read more |
| New Technology | Freedom Hernia Repair from Insightra  Physio Hernia Repair is a newly unveiled technology from Insightra Medical, Inc. (Irvine, California) that the company believes will revolutionize the surgical approach in the treatment of inguinal hernias. The company's proprietary, still experimental procedure is based on two devices: Freedom Hernia Dilator and Freedom Hernia Implant... Read More |
| Regenerative Medicine | ProteomTech, Inc. and Collaborators Make Major Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research Company and its collaborators have successfully generated induced pluripotent stem
(iPS) cells from somatic cells using recombinant proteins, thereby creating an economical and expeditious way to generate stem cells while simultaneously eliminating any risk of modifying the target cell genome. It was the first study ever to report that iPS cells can be generated without the use of any form of exogenous genetic material. The study was published online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell... Read more
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| IP Litigation | Judge Nixes Dako's Motion against
UC, Abbott in FISH Patent Suit
The California District court denied motions by the
Carpinteria-based Dako for summary judgment of invalidity of Abbott's in situ DNA hybridization patent.... Read more |
| CE Mark | Magellan Spine Technologies Receives CE Mark for the DART Spinal Disc Annular Repair Technology The Irvine,
Califoria-based company received the CE Mark to market its DART System -- an implant used to seal the access site in the annulus fibrosus following lumbar spine microdiscectomy -- in the European Union and other countries that recognize the CE Mark for distribution purposes ... Read more |
| Growth | Endologix of Irvine Reports 42% Revenue Growth in the 2009 First Quarter "We are reporting another quarter of record sales, with total revenue increasing 42% year-over-year and 11% sequentially from the 2008 fourth quarter," said John McDermott, Endologix President and Chief Executive Officer. "Domestic revenue grew 49% versus the prior-year and 11% sequentially due to increased sales force productivity and new product introductions .... Read more |
| 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 |
| Editor: Ahmed A. Enany Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio) |
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