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Featured Analysis
| Will Adaptive Clinical Trial Design Change The BioPharma World?
 Adaptive clinical trials could prove to be one of those quiet revolutions that is seldom noticed (let alone appreciated) by those who are not knee-deep in the industry. Nevertheless, if this advance leads to faster development timelines and significant monetary savings, the industry and its shareholders could clearly benefit.... Read more |
| Technology Trends | Finding a New Focus
Advances in lenses help address two vision problems at one time
 Several new options for artificial lenses can both eliminate cataracts and correct vision problems so you may not need glasses ever again.... Read article |
| Biosimilars | Merck's Ditching of Aranesp Biosimilar Highlights Follow-on-Biologics Pitfalls
 The developmental and regulatory minefield confronting companies attempting to develop follow-on-biologics
(FOBs), or biosimilars, was highlighted again this week with Merck's decision to scrap development of MK-2578, its pegylated form of erythropoietin similar to Amgen's blockbuster anaemia drug
Aranesp.... Read more
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Upcoming SoCalBio Events
| May 28, 7:00 to 9:30 AM
SoCalBio Networking Forum in Orange County
Navigating Healthcare ReformsUCI University Club in IrvineLearn from industry experts how the recently passed healthcare reform package can impact your business: from funding opportunities, changing reimbursement rules to the medical device tax. Click here to RSVPJune 10, 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
SoCalBio Open HouseWilshire Grand Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles Learn how SoCalBio's Group Purchasing Program can slow your company's burn rate and cut down the cost of doing business; and get detailed insight into how SoCalBio can help your organization succeed.Click here to RSVPJune 22, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PMSoCalBio Luncheon and Roundtable Discussion for Cardiovascular Company Executives
DevicePharm (Irvine, CA)
The luncheon & Roundtable is solely for solid
peer-to-peer information exchange and debate. The
roundtable is open to SoCalBio member companies and invited executives affiliated with non-member companies.
Send e-mail to RSVPJune 28, 10:00 AM - 8:30 PMSoCalBio/Image 2000 Golf Classic(ending with with reception and dinner)Old Ranch Country Club in Seal BeachThanks to Title Sponsor Join your medtech and biotech colleagues and friends for a great day of golf in one of the exquisite courses in Southern California while you show your support for the bioscience industry, the Multiple Sclerosis Society and SoCalBio. |
Welcome New SoCalBio Members
| Jordan NeuroScience, Inc.
(San Bernardino)
 Jordan NeuroScience was founded in 1996 by Kenneth Jordan, MD.,
FACP, to improve the treatment of patients with acute brain dysfunction. The company provides EEG set up solutions for use in the EEG lab for standard EEG, continuous EEG in the adult, pediatric or neonatal ICU setting
(ICU/cEEG),long-term ambulatory EEG (AEEG), polysomnography and neurofeedback studies... Learn more
Graves & Walton, LLP
(Los Angeles and Pasadena)
 Graves & Walton is an intellectual property litigation boutique founded to provide high-end intellectual property litigation services to companies and individuals. The firm represents plaintiffs and defendants in patent, trademark and unfair competition, copyright, and antitrust litigation... Click here to learn more
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| Clinical Studies | Cameron Health's Entirely Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Showing Promise in Clinical Study
 Clinicians found the San
Clemente-based Cameron's left lateral thoracic pulse generator to be the optimal configuration, as effective as transvenous ICD for terminating induced ventricular fibrillation. In addition, the device successfully detected and treated 12 episodes of spontaneous ventricular tachyarrhythmia in patients enrolled in the study... Read more |
Financing
|  Sequent Medical Raises $15.6 Million
The Aliso Viejo-based endovascular device company raised this second round of funding from Domain Associates, Versant Ventures and US Venture Partners ...Read more |
| Product Approvals | Amgen Seeks Cancer Approval for Bone Loss Drug
The Thousand Oaks-base company filed a new marketing application for its drug candidate
denosumab, asking regulators to approve it as a treatment for bone damage suffered by cancer patients.... Read more
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Collaborations
| Response Genetics Signs Agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to Provide Proprietary BRAF Mutational Analysis Technology
Under the terms of the agreement, GSK gains certain rights to the Los Angeles-base Response Genetics' proprietary PCR analysis technology and diagnostic expertise to assess BRAF gene mutations in human tumor samples. Payments will be made to Response Genetics upon achivement of agreed-to milestones. Further financial details were not disclosed.... Read moreMP Biomedicals to Cooperate with Russian Nanotechnology Corporation in Nanobiotechnology
MP Biomedicals (Santa Ana) and RUSNANO (Moscow, Russia) plan to jointly implement projects focused on anti-aging and increasing in life expectancy, as well as creating the infrastructure for innovations in the area of
nanobiotechnology.... Read more |
| Marketing | UnitedHealthcare Wellness Programs now Available with At-Home Health Screening Kits Provided by Santa Barbara-Based BioIQ
The kits by BioIQ are available nationwide to employers who self-fund their health benefit plans. Each BioIQ at-home health screening kit contains components and instructions for drawing a tiny blood sample, from a finger prick, that is mailed to a certified laboratory for analysis. The easy-to-understand lab reports, along with personalized health recommendations based in part on the test results, are available through password-protected accounts on BioIQ's secure Web portal....Read more
Biosense Webster Introduces the THERMOCOOL SF Irrigated Catheter in the European Union
The THERMOCOOL SF catheter is use by electrophysiologists in treating cardiac arrhythmias, commonly referred to as irregular heart rhythms.... Read more
CompuMed to Deliver eHealth to Emerging Underserved Markets
These markets include geriatric, pediatric and rural areas that the company estimates could represent a potential market of more than $2.2 billion in related annual procedures. "We believe the timing is ideal for CompuMed to enter these markets, as reimbursement policies are changing to encourage telemedicine-based services as a means to reduce costs while improving the quality of care for underserved patients," said Maurizio
Vecchione, president and CEO of CompuMed... Read more
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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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