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June 17, 2012




Editor: Ahmed Enany 
President & CEO
Southern California
Biomedical Council

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Coming in November

Southern California Biggest Celebration of

Emerging Bioscience Companies

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We Still Believe!
November 7, 2012 -- Omni Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Available

Interested in making a business presentation during this conference? Please send an executive summary to [email protected]

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7/19/12, 8AM - 5PM -- SoCalBio Workforce Summit @ Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Eventbrite - 2012 SoCalBio Workforce Summit

This SoCalBio summit will provide an opportunity to enhance the partnerships among bioscience industry executives, educational institutions and workforce development.organizations for bioscience talent development and job creation.

 

Eventbrite - SoCalBio Networking Forum in Orange County: The Wireless Future of Medicine (Showcase and Expo)

The SoCalBio Networking Forums bring together leaders from all segments of the life-science industry to share insights and learn about how the digital-medical convergence is changing the face of healthcare in the US.

 

This is a meeting of bioscience women executives and allied service providers affiliated with SoCalBio to encourage women entrepreneurship in the biosciences.

See Full SoCalBio Calendar of Events Open to the Public at: http://socalbio.org/calendar/calendar.htm
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Vox Populi

Are You FOR or AGAINST Labeling

Genetically Modified Food

 

When Californians go to the polls in November, they will  vote on a proposition that requires labeling genetically modified food. If passes this proposition would make California the first state in the US enforcing such labeling requirement. Click here for a commentary by NPR on this initiative. 

 

Your Opinion Matters to SoCalBio

Are you for or against labeling GM food?

Click here to vote 

(voting is anonymous)

New SoCalBio Members
BionCR (Irvine)

 

bioncrBionCR Development is a biopharmaceutical company translating highly innovative scientific research into drug development programs for patient populations with unmet and critical clinical needs. BionCR works with academic and biopharmaceutical partners in affiliated and proprietary research programs to identify and develop therapeutic targets and clinical solutions... Learn more

Exponent (Menlo Park, Los Angeles & Irvine)

exponentExponent is an engineering and scientific consulting firm providing solutions to complex problems. Exponent's multidisciplinary organization of scientists, physicians, engineers, and business consultants brings together more than 90 technical disciplines to address complicated issues facing industry and government today. The firm has been best known for analyzing accidents and failures to determine their causes, but in recent years it has become more active in assisting clients with human health, environmental and engineering issues associated with new products to help prevent problems in the future ... Learn more

Integrity Bio, Inc. (Camarillo)

 

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Integrity Bio, Inc. provides formulation development, process development, and contract manufacturing services for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies in the United States and internationally. It offers contract manufacturing services, including aseptic filling and capping of parenteral products for stability, preclinical, and clinical studies, as well as facilities to manufacture sterile lyophilized formulations. ...Learn more

Claremont BioSolutions (Upland)
 
PureLyseBioSolutions (ClaremontBio) is dedicated to next-generation devices for lysis and nucleic acid extraction from microbial cells for PCR ready sample. Key focuses on ClaremontBio's novel technology are ease of use, disposibility, cost effectiveness, versatility, elimination of extensive protocols, as well as elimination of the need for additional lab equipment such as centrifuges and wash baths.This novel technology can be applied to point-of-care systems, mini flow through platforms and various other integrations ... Learn more

One3 IP Management (Newbury Park)

One3 IP is dedicated to intellectual property management. The company is represented in SoCalBio by its CEO Peter Weinstein [email protected]
Coming in September

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 Drug Shortage

How Margaret Hamburg's FDA Causes

Cancer Drug Shortages

 

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Forbes' contributor Avik Roy contends that the FDA has gone overboard in enforcing GMP standards. This is reflected in a dramatic jump in issuing warning letters to drug manufacturers. According to Roy, overly aggressive enforcement by the FDA has led to one of the most serious problems in American health care today: a catastrophic shortage of supply for dozens of important generic drugs, especially certain injectable medications that form the backbone of modern cancer chemotherapy ... Click here to read article 
Postmortem: California Tobacco Tax

No Tobacco Tax for Research?

 

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Daniel B. Moskowitz at BioTechniques provides an analysis of he failed California Proposition 29 which sought to increase funding for cancer research by taxing tobacco products ... Click here to read
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Expansion

Puma Biotechnology Opens an Office in 

South San Francisco

  

PumaIn a Form 8-K filing, the West Los Angeles-based Puma indicated that it has signed a lease for 9,560 square feet of office space in the building located in South San Francisco for general office and administrative purposes. Puma focuses on in-licensing innovative drug candidates that are undergoing or have already completed initial clinical testing for the treatment of various forms of cancer and then seek to further develop these drug candidates for commercial use ... Read more

Patent Litigation

Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against ClearCount 

Medical Solutions


safetySpongeThe Irvine-based Patient Safety Technologies lawsuit asserts a claim against the Pittsburgh, PA-based ClearCount for infringement of United States Patent No. 5,931,824 entitled "Identification and Accountability System for Surgical Sponges."  Patient Safety's claims are based on ClearCount's sale of its SmartSponge Flex and SmartSponge System products which are alleged to infringe the '824 Patent.  Patient Safety seeks injunctive relief and damages as remedies for the infringement... Read more

Collaborations

Amgen and Astra Zeneca Collaborate on 

Inflammation Drugs

 

amgenastraThe two companies will  jointly develop and commercialize five monoclonal antibodies from Amgen's clinical inflammation portfolio (AMG 139, AMG 157, AMG 181, AMG 557 and brodalumab (AMG 827)). The companies believe all the molecules have novel profiles and offer the potential to deliver important treatments across multiple indications in inflammatory diseases ... Read more

 

Simulation Plus Signs a Collaboration Agreement with a Major Pharmaceutical Company to Fund Enhanced Oral Cavity Model in GastroPlus

 

GastroPlusThe Lancaster-based Simulations Plus, Inc., a provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, recently announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with a top-5 pharmaceutical company to extend and enhance its oral cavity dosing model within its industry gold standard GastroPlus simulation software program.... Read more

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Edwards' Sapien Advocated for Wider Use

 

sapienvalveThe Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences Corporation has received the much awaited recommendation from the advisory panel of the US Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for its Sapien transcatheter heart valve ("THV"). The panel recommended Sapien (via both transfemoral and transapical delivery) for high-risk patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis . The FDA panel, however, remained concerned about increased risk of stroke... Read more  

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Leadership

SoCalBio Adds Two Bioscience Women

to its Board of Directors

 

During its quarterly meeting on Thursday, May 24 at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, members of the SoCalBio Board of Directors unanimously elected Jennifer Neff, PhD, CEO of the Orange County-based Allvivo Vascular and Denise (Dee Dee) DeMan, Chairman & CEO of the Beverly Hills-based Bench International to the Board. 

 

jneffJennifer (photo right) has a PhD degree in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. After serving as a PostDoc Fellow at the Center for Human Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, she was recruited in 2000 to serve as Medical Director of Allvivo, Inc., the predecessor to Allvivo Vascular. In 2005, she became the Chief Technology Officer of Allvivo after its restructuring as Allvivo Vascular. In 2008, Jennifer took the helm at the company as a CEO .. Read more about Allvivo Vascular

 

deedeeDee Dee (photo right) has taken Bench from its founding in 1974 to its eminence today as one of the most successful specialized retained executive search firms in the world. "Dee Dee" is deeply committed to properly "shattering" the glass ceiling for women in the life sciences ... Read more

 

Click here for full list of SoCalBio Board Members

Jobs Available
InTouch Health (Santa Barbara)
Sofie Biosciences (Culver City)
Neumedicines (Pasadena)
Omnica (Irvine)
Xencor (Monrovia)
PBS Biotech (Camarillo)
Allvivo Vascular (Lake Forest)
Puma Biotechnology (Los Angeles)
Maven Biotechnologies (Monrovia)
Avita Medical (Northridge)
Inogen (Goleta)

Amgen (Thousand Oaks)
  • Amgen has 150 job openings in Thousand Oaks in research, marketing, information technology, quality, regulatory affairs and HR. Click here to access list
       
C3 Jian (Inglewood)
International Medication Systems (South El Monte)

 

Company accepts resumes and applications for the following positions:

  • Clinical Research Professionals
  • Accounting Professionals
  • Computer (Software & Hardware) Expert/Technician
  • In-vivo Laboratory Technician
  • Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineer
  • Microbiologist/Microbiology Technician
  • Product Development Analyst
  • Product Compliance Analyst
  • Quality Assurance Specialist
  • Quality Control Chemist/Technician
  • Regulatory Affairs Specialist
  • Research and Development Scientist
  • Marketing/Sales Representative
  • Technical Writer
  • Validation Engineer/Technician
  • Process Engineer
  • Maintenance Technician
  • Human Resource Professionals

See more information at: http://www.ims-limited.com/employment.htm. E-mail resumes to IMS at [email protected]

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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