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December 18, 2012
|  Editor: Ahmed Enany
President & CEO
Southern California
Biomedical Council
enany@socalbio.org
www.socalbio.org
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Amgen Buys Icelandic Gene Hunter Decode
for $415 Million
As part of Amgen, Decode's scientists will help in the task of ensuring that experimental medicines hit the right spot. Their know-how should allow Amgen to identify promising new avenues earlier and close down dead-ends more quickly ... Read more
Implications of Amgen/deCODE Deal for Genetic Testing Consumers |
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| Supported Events |
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Biomed Innovation Summit 2013
14-15th March, 2013 SHANGHAI, CHINA
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| Collaboration |
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The Pasadena -Based Arrowhead and Shire Enter into Collaboration and License Agreement to Develop Peptide-Targeted Therapeutics
 "Shire's expertise in developing innovative medicines for rare diseases makes them an ideal partner for Arrowhead as we advance our platform of human-derived Homing Peptides," said Dr. Chris Anzalone, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arrowhead. "Our library of over 42,000 unique targeting peptide sequences can potentially be used to deliver therapeutics to more than 30 tissue types while avoiding non-specific uptake. We view this collaboration as a significant validation of our technology and discovery capabilities. Moreover, this agreement underscores our strategy of building value by developing an internal pipeline of PDCs and RNAi therapeutics and by working with partners to improve their proprietary medicines with our peptide targeting." |
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| Private Screening | |
You Are Invited to a Private Screening of
Fight to Live
a documentary focused on the need to
accelerate medical product approvals
January 14, 4 to 7 pm, Sanford-Burnham Inatioute, San Diego
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| Cardiovascular Innovations |
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Creating a Genetically Engineered Pacemaker
Researchers at Cedars Sinai published a paper in Nature Biotechnology that describes one approach to pacing the heart without an electrical implant: genetic reprogramming. Whereas the vast majority of the heart's 10 billion cells are cardiomyocytes, which are responsible for pumping blood through the body, the pacemaker is composed of a specialized population of ~10,000 cells with spontaneous electrical rhythm originating in the sino-atrial node (SAN).By using an adenovirus carrying the transcription factor .... Read the paper
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| Litigation |
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Amgen to pay $762M settlement over drug marketing
The company, the largest in the global biotechnology sector, had already set aside funds it expected to have to pay as a result of federal and state investigations as well as nearly a dozen civil whistleblower lawsuits ... Read more
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| New SoCalBio Members |
Quantason (Los Angeles)
Quantason has developed a revolutionary, next-generation bi-modal (US/IDUS) platform technology which fundamentally changes the utilization of conventional ultrasound both as a modality for diagnostic imaging and as an active screening method ... Learn more
Amethyst Life Sciences
@ the New Ventura BioCenter (Thousand Oaks)
Amethyst Life Sciences, Inc., is a privately-funded company whose mission is to enable new start-up businesses in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceutical science, nanotechnology, and materials science ... Learn more
Exact Staff, Inc. (Woodland Hills)
 Exact Staff is a healthcare and medical device staffing service provider. The company will be represented in SoCalBio by its CEO Ms. Karen Goodwin kgoodwin@exactstaff.com ... Learn more
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| Food Allergies |
Food Allergy Smartphone Dock Brings Laboratory to a Restaurant Near You
 Researchers at UCLA developed a small device that works along with a smartphone to detect common food allergens. It weighs less than 2 ounces (60 grams) and can detect chemical traces of peanuts, almonds, eggs, gluten and hazelnuts ... Read more
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| Pulse Oximetry |
Masimo Releases iPhone/iPad Pulse Oximeter, Aims to Satisfy Quantified Selves
 The Irvine-based Masimo announced a consumer pulse oximeter that works with Apple iPhones and iPads. Masimo is a big name in pulse oximetry and this technology may become popular with athletes that are looking to have a better understanding of their body's performance ... read more
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| Biotech Real Estate Opportunity | |
Rare Biotech Sublease Opportunity in Santa Monica
Approx 28,000 Total Contiguous Rentable Square Feet
- Asking rate: $2.50 NNN with 3% annual increases
- 1545 17th St. approximately 18,000 rsf. through September 30, 2016
- 1701 Colorado Ave. / 1553 17th St. approximately 10,000 rsf through October 31, 2016
- Longer terms may be available
- Available December 1, 2013
- Creative office potential
- Two buildings combined currently improved as a biotechnology manufacturing facility, including: generator, clean rooms, laboratory space, hoods, autoclaves, etc
- Approx. 62 car parking (including lot across the street at 1544 17th St.)
- Located in the heart of the Santa Monica Media District and across the street from a future Metro stop
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| Leadership |
Biotech Drugmaker Amgen Names CEO
Robert Bradway as Chairman
 Bradway, 49, became Amgen's CEO in May. He has been with the company since 2006, serving as vice president for operations strategy and then as chief financial officer. As planned, Bradway will succeed his predecessor as CEO and chairman, Kevin Sharer, who is retiring on Dec. 31 ... Read more
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| Jobs Available |
AMSBIO (Lake Forest)
Quantason (Los Angeles)
BioOptions (Brea)
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Marketing & Sales (BIO|OPTIONS is a biorepository company in Brea, California specializing in human biospecimen procurement solutions for molecular and genomic research, drug development, biomarker discovery and diagnostic testing. We are seeking a full-time marketing and sales candidate with extensive experience in the biotech industry. Our clients include major biotech, big pharma
and life science diagnostic companies. You will be responsible for identifying new clients and managing and growing existing accounts. Developing and implementing a marketing plan is also required. Send resume to: lblocher@biooptions.com)
Epeius Biotechnology (San Marino)
- Sr Research Associate (This individual is responsible for performing under general direction, complex experiments and other research activities as directed by the Director of Research and Development. This position entails working on the company's upcoming lead gene therapy retroviral products to determine the ones which are most efficient at targeting and killing cancer. The assays involve cellular and molecular assays using modern equipment and techniques. Please send resume to: rreed@epeiusbiotech.com)
- Regulatory Affairs Administrative Assistant (Epeius Biotechnologies has an immediate full-time position in San Marino, CA, for a Regulatory Affairs Administrative Assistant. Epeius is focused on bringing its cancer gene therapy to patients in the US and Internationally. The company is seeking an individual who is intelligent, passionate, determined, reliable and team oriented as well as being fully capable of performing duties within both regulatory and non-regulatory administrative activities. Please send resume to: rreed@epeiusbiotech.com)
Huntington Hospital (Pasadena)
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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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