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WEST RIDGE ASSOCIATES, LLC provides merger and acquisition, corporate finance and related investment banking services to established middle market businesses, earlier stage companies with high growth potential, and commercialization stage companies in the biomed industry. West Ridge is represented on the SoCalBio Board of Directors by its Sr. Managing Director Chuck Troe (photo above). Visit Web Site
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| Social Media and the Biosciences | Do Drugs And Tweets Mix?  The drug biz is abuzz over social media. It's the new frontier. For a lot of PR and corporate communications teams it's all about new media and social media. Some
biopharmas, big and small, now have directors of social media. Most are still trying to find their way, but the Food and Drug Administration may soon direct them... Read more |
| Expansion | Seal Beach Is Set to Play a Big Role in What Could Be a $1 Billion Drug to Fight Prostate Cancer
 Seattle-based biotechnology drug developer Dendreon Corp. plans to open a plant in Seal Beach (photo right) that's set to produce
Provenge, its prostate cancer vaccine. Dendreon plans to open the Seal Beach plant in the second half of 2011. In November, Dendreon is expected to submit an application for Provenge to the Food and Drug Administration ... Read more |
| Recent Financing Deals | Gamma
Medica-Ideas Raises $24 Million in its First Round of Institutional Funding. The Northridge-based developer of digital molecular imaging systems raised the money from Psilos Group, which led the $14 million equity tranche, and was joined by Capital Resource Partners (which also provided $5m in mezzanine debt). Bridge Banm provided a $5 million revolving line of credit. For more information see
company's web site at: www.gm-ideas.com ValenTx Inc. Raises $22 Million in Series B Funding The Carpinteria-based developer of minimally-invasive treatments for morbid obesity, has raised its round B from SV Life Sciences, which led the round and was joined by Covidien Ventures and return backers EDF Ventures, Affinity Capital Management, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, TGap Ventures and Sapient Capital Management. peHUB had previously reported on the round, based on a regulatory filing... Read more |
| Clinical Studies | Reverse Medical Corporation Receives FDA IDE Clinical Study Approval for the ReStore Microcatheter Reverse Medical announced that it had received FDA conditional approval to begin a neurothrombectomy IDE study for its ReStore Microcatheter at twenty US centers. The study is planned to begin enrollment in US and European hospitals following investigating study center Institutional Review Board
(IRB) approvals... Read more |
| Marketing | Biolase of Irvine Announces Distribution Agreements in China
These distribution agreements followed the Company's August 12, 2009, announcement that it had received regulatory approval to market its Waterlase MD products in China ..... 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 |
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