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Venture Capital | Where are Bioscience VCs in the US SoCalBio has identified about 350 venture funds that invested or expressed interest in bioscience companies. These funds operate through 450+ offices located mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York-Boston region.To access interactive map and list of bioscience VC firms click here 
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Patenting
| Meet European Patent Office Examiners in Irvine |  European Patent Office Examiners in the Medical Arts are coming to Knobbe Martens on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Local companies are invited to meet with the Examiners and gain insight on strategies for protecting medical technologies in Europe, including therapeutic, surgical, diagnostic and computer implemented technologies. This breakfast meeting will take place at Knobbe Martens' Irvine office (2040 Main Street, 2nd floor, Irvine, CA 92614) from 8-9:30 AM on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. There is no cost to attend ... Read more
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Drug Delivery
| Vault Nanoparticles as New Option for Targeted Drug Delivery |  Scientists at UCLA have re-engineered vault nanoparticles, ribonucleoprotein complexes that all mammalian cells have in the cytoplasm, to function as drug delivery devices. The advantages of using such nanoparticles may be that they do not trigger an immune response, are small enough to travel to target sites, and can ferry substantial drug loads... Read more |
Ophthalmic CE Mark
| STAAR Surgical's Visian ICL and Toric ICL V4c Approved in Europe |  The Monrovia-based STAAR Surgical, the leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of minimally invasive ophthalmic lenses for refractive surgery, announced CE Mark approval for its Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) V4c design .... Read more |
Patient Monitoring Product Launch
| OSI Systems Launches XPREZZON, a New Patient Monitoring Product |  The Hawthorn-based OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its Healthcare division, Spacelabs Healthcare, launched XPREZZON, a patient monitoring solution that delivers innovative technology and design to shape the new age of care for clinicians and patients alike ... Read more
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Genetic Testing Partnership
| Applied BioCode Announces Strategic Technology Partnership, License Agreement with EraGen Biosciences |  The agreement provides EraGen with access to Applied BioCode's Barcoded Magnetic Bead technology and the CE-marked BioCode-1000 system. The technology provides a robust and reliable solution for development and clinical laboratory use of multiplexed infectious disease and genetic tests. "The combination of EraGen's patented chemistry with our Barcoded Magnetic Beads and BioCode-1000 system will provide a powerful testing platform for clinical laboratories," said Winston Ho (photo right), Ph.D., president of Applied BioCode ... Read more |
Wound Healing Study Results
| Study Demonstrates That Avita Medical's ReCell Spray-On Skin "Has Potentially Broad Application to the Healing of Acute and Chronic Wounds" |  Avita Medical, a Northridge-based regenerative medicine company, announced that a clinical study of 18 patients suffering from partial-thickness burns, some of which had failed to heal after treatment with other wound-healing methods ('chronic wounds'), demonstrated successful wound-healing after being treated with ReCell Spray-On Skin from Avita Medical ... Read more
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People on the Move
| Inglewood-Based C3 Jian Appoints Laura Navalta Vice President, Clinical Operations "We are very excited about Laura joining C3," said Todd R. Patrick, C3 Jian's President and CEO. "She comes to us with an impressive track record of accomplishments in taking new biopharmaceutical and
device products through the rigorous FDA approval process. This appointment further signals our progress in moving C3 Jian from its roots in research excellence to the next stage of development - FDA
regulated human clinical trials. The fact that we were able to recruit someone as impressive as Laura is testimony to our company's potential" ... Read more Obagi Medical Products Appoints Albert F. Hummel President and CEO | Obagi Medical Products, Inc. (Long Beach), a leader in topical aesthetic and therapeutic skin health systems, today announced that Albert F. Hummel has been appointed the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hummel had been serving as interim President and Chief Executive Officer since October, 2010, and has served on the Company's Board of Directors since 2005 .... Read more |
| Jobs | IntriMed Technologies (Ventura) Acelot (Santa Barbara) | ImaginAB (Inglewood) | Biomed Development Corporation (Los Angeles) | | IRIS International (Chatsworth) | MEDomics (Azusa) Click here for description and to apply - Molecular Genetics Technologist/Laboratory Scientist
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Mitochondrial Medicine Scholar, Clinical Diagnostics Division
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