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January 23, 2013
|  Editor: Ahmed Enany
President & CEO
Southern California
Biomedical Council
enany@socalbio.org
www.socalbio.org
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| Supported Event | 
Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
The Balboa Bay Club & Resort Newport Beach, CA
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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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| New SoCalBio Members |
Interlean LLC (Lawndale)
Interlean is created by Mr William Botha, formerly with Baxter Biosciences and Avrio Biopharmaceuticals, to offer Lean deployment services customized to fit the needs of the tightly regulated pharmaceutical and medical device companies ...learn more
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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| Public Policy |
California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills
 Serial technology entrepreneur Brian Oversrtreet (photo right) laments the cancellation of Californa's Qualified Small Business (QSB) tax benefits and argues that the State's decision to RETROACTIVELY deny the benefits for the past five years will hurt entrepreneurship .... Read more
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| Botox |
Allergan's Botox Is Cleared by the FDA to Help Bladder Control
 Botox, the wrinkle treatment made by the Irvine-based company Allergan, has been approved to treat adults with overactive bladders who cannot tolerate or were not helped by other drugs ... Read more
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Lactose Intolerance
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Los Angeles-Based Ritter Pharmaceuticals Feeds Good Bugs To Fight Lactose Intolerance
 Founded by Andrew Ritter (photo right), Ritter Pharmaceuticals was featured in BioWorld. The magazine article contends that there's a large $2 billion market for over-the-counter products to treat the roughly 39 million Americans with lactose intolerance, but even with the available options, 82 percent of lactose-intolerant patients report they still experience symptoms ... Read more
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Aquaculture
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Stellar Biotechnologies Pioneers Aquaculture Milestone in KLH Protein Manufacturing
 The Port Hueneme-based Stellar announced that it has successfully achieved a commercial-scale aquaculture system that sustains the complete life cycle of multiple generations of the Giant Keyhole Limpet (Megathura crenulata), the scarce marine source for Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH).... Read more
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Biomed Innovation Summit 2013
14-15th March, 2013 SHANGHAI, CHINA
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| Collaboration |
Janssen Pays Up for Use of Xencor's Xtend
The Monrovia-based Xencor has received a milestone payment from Janssen R&D resulting from the exercised option for the use of Xencor's Xtend half-life extension technology in a therapeutic antibody. This triggered a payment to Xencor under the terms of a technology license agreement that the company entered into with Janssen R&D (Centocor R&D) in 2009. The antibody target and the amount of the payment were not disclosed. ... Read more
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| M&As |
The Irvine-Based Allergan, Inc. Pays $958 Million to Acquire MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
MAP Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing new therapies in Neurology, including LEVADEX, an orally inhaled drug for the potential acute treatment of migraine in adults. LEVADEX is currently under review with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... 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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| Jobs Available |
Prolacta Biosciences (Monrovia)
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Internships: Prolacta has internships in food science, clinical, quality systems, information systems, and marketing. For further information please contact: Cari Dittman, Sr. Manager, Customer Care. Click for company web site
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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