Coming This Thursday

9th SoCalBio Investor Conference

June 7, 2007, 7:00 am – 8:30pm
Wilshire Grand Hotel
930 Wilshire Blvd., LA, CA 90017

Organized once a year by the Southern California Biomedical Council, this Conference features business presentations by CEOs of Southern California device, pharmaceutical and e-health firms interested in raising capital and/or forging strategic partnerships. It also offers forums to engage technologists and investors in a discourse over new models of commercializing life-science innovations.

What is New

Kim Letch, partner at Ernst & Young's Irvine (CA) office, will deliver the morning presentation 
during the 9th SoCalBio Investor Conference  on:

"The State of the Life-Science Industry and What Is Required 
to Increase the Flow of Early-Stage Funding"

Presentation is based on Ernst & Young recently published study entitled 
"Beyond Borders: Ernst & Young's Global Biotechnology Report 2007"

Copies of the report will be distributed during the June 7 Investor Conference

The conference will also feature: 

  • Business presentations by 20 biotech and device companies
  • 40 speakers, panelists and moderators
  • Five breakout sessions 
  • Three keynote presentations 
  • A poster show 
  • 20+ sponsors and exhibitors 
  • Ample networking opportunities and excellent food
The list of presenting companies now includes the following:
  • 3D Vision Systems (Irvine): Digital microsurgical workstation systems
  • Agada Pharmaceuticals: Cancer therapeutics
  • AmProtein (Camarillo): Double-domain proteins structures for therapeutic applications such as diabetes and obesity
  • Caldera Medical (Agoura Hills): Implantable medical devices for incontinence
  • Cenomed Biosciences (Lake Forest): New therapeutics for psychiatric and neurological disease and chemical defense
  • Clearant (Los Angeles): Providing orthopedic sterile tissue implants to prevent transmission of viruses and bacteria
  • CoreValve (Irvine): Non-invasive heart valve replacement technology
  • IMT (Santa Monica): Non-invasive tool for the early detection of cardiovascular disease.
  • Maven Biotechnologies (Pasadena): Label-free diagnostics platform
  • Novadigm (Torrance): Vaccine for resistant hospital-acquired infections
  • Novelix (Pasadena): IL-24 -based drugs for cancer
  • oProbe (Los Angeles): Novel Optical Coherence Tomography imaging probe that enables surgeons to acquire nondestructive biopsies of human tissue during surgical procedures
  • ORFID (Los Angeles): Organic electronics for medical and other applications
  • ProteomeTech (Costa Mesa): New anti-angiogenic drugs
  • Replivir (Los Angeles): New generation of biological therapies for cancer
  • Rizo Patron Enterprises (Carpinteria): Cervical spine immobilization devices
  • SIDMAP (Los Angeles): A platform technology for metabolic profiling
  • Symphony Medical (Laguna Niguel): Treatments for cardiac disorders such as post-operative atrial fibrillation and chronic Heart failure through proprietary biopolymer-and cellular- based therapies
  • Two more companies to be added soon

Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are available
scbc@socalbio.org

Conference Co-Chairs

  • Alfred E. Mann, Chairman, MannKind Corp.

  • Anthony Natale, M.D., Partner, Prism VentureWorks

  • Kenneth Trevett, President, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute

  • Michael Wise, Partner, Perkins Coie

Keynote Speakers


Leroy Hood, Ph.D., Institute for Systems Biology


George Bekey, PhD, USC

Thanks to lead sponsors

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In the News

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Featured SoCalBio Employer

PrimeCell Therapeutics LLC 
(Irvine, CA)

Jobs available at BioScreen:

See list of other positions open at SoCalBio companies at:
http://www.socalbio.org/career_center/jobs.htm

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