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A full-service, national law firm
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Networking Forum in Ventura County
Micro-Manufacturing
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4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (PT)
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Zickfeld
Associates (Los Angeles)
Zickfeld
Associates is a boutique advisory firm
providing the life sciences, medical
device, and technology industries with
business strategy and business development
expertise and advice.
National
Green Gas LLC
(Indio)
National
Green Gas is a new company in Southern
California that has a recently approved
technology for treating all biomedical
waste types without incineration. The
process is approved by the State Dept of
Public Health and is less expensive, more
efficient, and greener and achieves the
ultimate goal of landfill diversion ... Read
more
Avita
Medical (Northridge)
Avita
Medical develops spray-on skin
processes to treat skin trauma, including
burns. The Company markets its skin
products under the names CellSpray and
ReCell. According to Avita, ReCell
has been approved for marketing and sale
in Europe, Canada and Australia... Click
here for more info
Amicrobe
(Pasadena)
Amicrobe,
Inc. uses advanced synthetic
biopolymer chemistry to create materials
that can prevent and treat infections.
These materials can be designed to have
broad-based antimicrobial activities as
well as to support wound healing... Learn
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From
the Lab Bench
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UCLA
Researchers Develop a Miniature
"Centrifuge-on-a-Chip"
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 Researchers
at UCLA and the California NanoSystems
Institute have developed the
"Centrifuge-on-a-Chip," which
does not rely on moving parts but instead
on microfluidic dynamics principles - such
as vortices generated in the chamber - to
separate, sort, and trap cells. The
invesntion may open opportunities in
automated, low-cost and high-throughput
sample preparation as an alternative to
the standard benchtop centrifuge in
standardized clinical diagnostics or
resource poor settings... Read
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Clinical
Trials
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Drug
Maker Ista Shares Fall on Clinical Study
Failure
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 Irvine-based
Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s shares fell
sharply Friday, a day after the company
said that its experimental dry eye drug
didn't meet the main goal of a late-stage
clinical trial. Ista's shares closed down
about 31% with a market value of about
$168 million. The drug maker said the
study required its Remura drug candidate
to show a statistically significant
improvement over a placebo .... Read
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Growth
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AcuFocus
KAMRA Inlay, Revolutionary Presbyopia
Correction Technology, Exceeds 5,000
Implants Globally
 The
Irvine-based AcuFocus, maker of a corneal
inlay that may revolutionize the treatment
of near vision loss (presbyopia),
announced significant procedural growth
since 2010 with the global launch of the
KAMRA inlay and an investment by leading
medical technology company, Medtronic.
AcuFocus is currently selling the KAMRA
inlay in Europe, the Middle East, South
America, and Asia-Pacific... Read
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Marketing
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PBS
Biotech Selects Green Cross Medical
Sciences as Exclusive Bioreactor
Distributor in Korea
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 The
Camarillo-based PBS Biotech, Inc., a
developer of single-use bioreactors for
the fast growing biotechnology market,
announced that it has signed an exclusive
distribution agreement in Korea with Green
Cross Medical Sciences Corp. (GCMS), a
division of Green Cross Corporation, one
of Korea's largest pharmaceutical firms.
Under terms of the agreement GCMS will
market, sell and support the complete line
of PBS Biotech single-use bioreactors for
R&D and production to the more than
200 biopharma firms of the burgeoning
Korean drug, vaccine and biosimilar
industry... Read
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People
on the Move
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Arrowhead
Research Announces Oncology Expert Timothy
J. Triche to Join Calando Scientific
Advisory Board
 "Dr.
Triche has an extensive clinical
background in the genetic aspects of
cancer biology and their biologic
consequences. In particular, his
industry-renowned research in Ewing's
sarcoma provides a foundation for a
potentially attractive RNAi therapeutics
target. Calando is fortunate to benefit
from his expert advice as we progress in
the development of CALAA-01, identify new
clinical candidates, and expand the RONDEL
delivery system," said Dr. Chris
Anzalone, President and CEO of the
Pasadena-based Arrowhead. "Dr. Triche
will be an active contributor to these
pursuits and we welcome the knowledge and
esteemed reputation he brings to
Calando" ... Read
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Biotech (Pasadena)
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Technologies (Ventura)
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