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DATE: January 21, 2010
TIME: 7:00 am - 9:30 am
*************************************Coming Next Week Workshop on Accessing Government Funding for Research Experts from the NIH, DoD and other governmental agencies will share tips on accessing SBIR/STTR grants and other types of government funding to support bioscience R&D activities
DATE: January 28, 2010
TIME: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Wet Lab and Office Space Available for Lease at CalPoly Pomona's Innovation Village
 
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Manufacturing Facility Available for Lease or Sale 
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| Commentary | |
New Strategy for ImmunoCellular Therapeutics The Woodland Hills-based biotechnology company has adopted a new strategy for 2010, including plans to conduct a Phase 2b trial of ICT-107 as the best way to increase shareholder value based on the impressive Phase I survival data in brain cancer patients that was updated last fall. Previously, IMUC planned to seek a licensing deal for further development of ICT-107 while retaining ICT-121 for in-house development as an off-the-shelf therapeutic cancer vaccine that has not yet entered clinical trials.... Read more |
| Grants | |
John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center Receives $1 Million Grant from Abraxis Bioscience
 The grant, awarded to the Department of Molecular Oncology directed by Dr. Dave
S.B. Hoon (photo right), will speed the search for genes and proteins that can serve as biomarkers for several common solid tumor cancers. Even when tumors are very small, biomarkers can alert doctors to the fact that a cancer is spreading, or reveal the presence of cancer that can remain after treatments such as surgery or chemotherapy -- rather than waiting until residual cells grow into a tumor large enough to be detected by imaging... Read more
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Product Development
| VertiFlex Announces First Implantation of its Shockwave Dynamic RodThe San Clemente-based spinal implant maker announced that it completed the first human implantation of its Shockwave Dynamic Stabilization System. This device is currently CE marked and under limited release in Europe but not commercially available in the United States... Read more |
| Growth | | Los Angeles-Based Response Genetics to Increase Sales Force by 50 percent to Meet Growing Demand for its ResponseDX Tests Based on growing demand, the company plans on adding five additional representatives to its sales force by the end of Q1 of this year. With an internal sales force of 15, as well the necessary support and infrastructure, the company will be better able to capitalize on the rapid market acceptance of Response Genetics' personalized medicine solutions... Read more
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| Personnel | Michael Ziering -- Previously President of DPC Which Is Now Part of Siemens Medical Solutions -- Joins Caldera Medical's Board of Directors The Agoura Hills-base medical device company elected Michael Ziering (photo right) and four others to join its board of directors. Previously, Mr. Ziering led the Los Angeles-based IVD maker -- Diagnostic Products Corporation -- and sold it to Siemens Medical Solutions in 2006 for $1.8 billion. He also served on SoCalBio's Board of
Direcors. Caldera is a privately held company and focuses on products for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolaspe ... Read more
STAAR Surgical Names Don Fagen Vice President of Sales, North America "STAAR is reemerging as a technology leader in the ophthalmic surgical marketplace. I am very excited about the Company's technology and look forward to joining the STAAR team," said Mr. Fagen. "Over the past 18 months, the Company has obtained three New Technology Intraocular Lens (NTIOL) approvals, launched two new IOL injector systems and released benchmarking data on the nanoFLEX IOL by the Collamer Accommodating Study Team (CAST). I look forward to leading the North American sales team as we focus on customer growth in 2010," Mr. Fagen added... Read more |
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