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January 14, 2013
|  Editor: Ahmed Enany
President & CEO
Southern California
Biomedical Council
enany@socalbio.org
www.socalbio.org
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Community College & Bioscience Industry Partnerships in Southern California
 Organized in Collaboration the LA/Orange County Biotechnology Center and the California Community Colleges, Southern California Biotechnology Center Hub, this event is a sequel to the SoCalBio Workforce Summit held last July 19, 2012. It will include bioscience industry executives as well as educators and administrators of Southern California community colleges who are invited for a briefing on the state of the biotech, pharma, diagnostics, informatics and the device industries in Southern California. In addition, this event will highlight the important role of the community college system as a driver in the preparation of a highly skilled workforce and will discuss opportunities for partnerships supporting the bioscience industry in Southern California.... More information
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Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
SoCalBio Best Practice Seminars
Failure Analysis, Product Recalls and Liability:
Preventing the FDA and Plaintiffs' Bar from
Knocking on Your Door
Skirball Cultural Center -- L-1 Conference Room
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90049
 SoCalBio and its sponsors Exponent and Crowell Moring are pleased to bring you this best practice seminar for an interactive discussion on medical device/biotech design analysis, regulatory compliance and liability issues. Medical product quality expert and seasoned lawyers will tackle issues from strategies to avoid the dreaded FDA 483 Warning Letter, how to effectively respond to FDA concerns if a 483 letter is issued, to successfully crafting and executing CAPA measures . .... Read more
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
The Balboa Bay Club & Resort Newport Beach, CA
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BioPhotonics
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BioPhotas Announces FDA Clearance of the Celluma, an Innovative Light Therapy Device to Treat Skin, Joint and Muscle Conditions
 The Tustin-based BioPhotas, Inc. announced the clearances by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) of the Celluma, its patented biophotonic medical device, for six separate Indications-For-Use, including the treatment of acne, muscle and joint pain, muscle and joint stiffness, muscle spasm, arthritis and and compromised local blood circulation ... Read more |
| Private Screening | |
Coming This Evening
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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The Anaheim-Based Questcor Pharmaceuticals Acquires Canadian Firm BioVectra
 BioVectra is the primary supplier of ingredients in Questcor's main product, the H.P. Acthar Gel, which was originally marketed to treat spasms in infants. "This action puts us in a better position to meet the continuing growth in demand for Acthar, brings to our company a broader depth of technical and scientific expertise, and provides us with a platform for potential international expansion," said Don M. Bailey, president and CEO of Questcor ... Read more
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Biomed Innovation Summit 2013
14-15th March, 2013 SHANGHAI, CHINA
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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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| Collaboration |
BIND Biosciences and Amgen Sign Agreement For The Worldwide Development and Commercialization of a Kinase Inhibitor Nanomedicine
The collaboration will develop a novel Accurin based on BIND's platform for targeted and programmable nanomedicines and Amgen's undisclosed proprietary kinase inhibitor. The collaboration aims to create a kinase inhibitor nanomedicine with optimized therapeutic properties, applying for the first time tissue targeting to molecularly targeted drugs...
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| IP Litigation |
UCLA Applauds Recent Court Decision in Licensing Case with Medivation
Judge John E. Munter of the Superior Court of San Francisco last month granted a summary adjudication in favor of UCLA in a lawsuit filed by the pharmaceutical company Medivation Inc. The suit concerned research conducted at UCLA that resulted in the development of a number of promising compounds for the treatment of prostate cancer ... Read more
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| Clinical Studies |
Sequent Medical's WEB Intracranial Aneurysm Embolization System Proving Itself in Clinical Trial
 Large intracranial aneurysms at a bifurcation of an artery require a gentle yet effective way to stop blood flow into the ballooning volume. A new intrasaccular flow disrupter called WEB from Sequent Medical of Aliso Viejo, California was recently subject to a clinical trial involving 20 patients with unruptured wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms ... 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 |
The Irvine-Based AtheroNova Inc. Names Joan Shaw as New Clinical Affairs Officer
"We are pleased to announce that Joan Shaw has recently joined AtheroNova's management team, adding another integral part to the staffing necessary to continue to work toward our entry into clinical trials in the coming months," stated Thomas W. Gardner, CEO of AtheroNova. "Joan's extensive experience in the risk management and quality assurance of clinical trials along with her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt will add to the core team that we have assembled at this stage of our development. Our recent additions to the team bring deep experience in cardiovascular clinical trials without adding significantly to our current cash burn rate moving forward" ... Read more
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| Jobs Available | |
Holomic (Los Angeles)
Cynvenio Biosystems (Westlake Village)
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)
- 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)
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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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