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January 31, 2013
|  Editor: Ahmed Enany
President & CEO
Southern California
Biomedical Council
enany@socalbio.org
www.socalbio.org
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| SoCalBio-Supported Event | 
Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
The Balboa Bay Club & Resort Newport Beach, CA
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| Thanks to Event Participants |
community college & bioscience industry partnerships in Southern California held January 25 at East LA Community College in Monterey Park
 | | Laura Ramirez, Interim Vice President, Office of Workforce Education, East Los Angeles Community College addresses meeting participants about the paradigm shift in the California Community College/Industry relations during the recent SoCalBio workforce Development meeting that featured numerous industry-driven community college talent development programs |
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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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| Crowdfunding |
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Crowdfunding Is Coming to Biotech, so Get
Ready for a Wild Ride
Luke Timmerman of the Xconomy questions if Crowdfuding is a suitable mechanism for raising capital for bioscience companies. Crowdfunding, for those unfamiliar, is the process in which individuals go on the Internet to donate, loan, or invest in a new company or project. Sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have become platforms for making these bets, and for social chit-chat about how they are doing .... Read more
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| Public Policy |
Amgen & Genentech Push for State Legislation
to Limit Generics
 Andrew Pollack at The New York Times reports that Amgen and Genentech have been sponsoring legislation at a number of states that would prevent pharmacists from being allowed to swiftly substitute a less expensive biosimilar, already winning one vote in the Virginia House of Delegates. In some cases pharmacists would be required to notify a physician ahead of a substitution, or consult with the patient about the switch. Pollack also notes a federal offensive under way to prevent a biosimilar from having the same generic name as the branded treatment, offering another hurdle on the path to substitutions ... Read more
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| Bionic Eye |
The Quest to Create a Bionic Eye Gets Clearer
 The Sylmar-based Second Sight Medical Products is featured in a recent Wall Street Journal article. The article describes Second Sight's efforts to create a retinal implant to restore sight to the blind, a task that has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S. ... Read more
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| Oncology Startup |
Patrick Soon-Shiong Unveils 'Convergence' Cancer Drug Startup
 The new company is named NantOmics. it is funded by Soon-Shiong's California Capital Equity group, as Bloomberg reported. Nantomics will develop a library of kinase inhibitors that could home in on multiple mutations that drive cancers regardless of where tumors reside in the body. He regained control of the kinase inhibitors from biopharma powerhouse Celgene ($CELG). Celgene sold the library to Soon-Shiong after picking it up in its $2.9 billion acquisition of Abraxis, a 2010 deal struck primarily for the reformulated chemo drug Abraxane. .... Read more
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Funding
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The Marina del Rey-Based Tribogenics Raises $6.2 Million Series A Round Led by Founders Fund
 "We are excited to work with Founders Fund because they have a passion for building great companies that successfully pursue real innovation through disruptive technologies," said Dale Fox (photo right), President and CEO of Tribogenics. "This investment will help us accelerate development of our new X-ray sources that promise to dramatically influence a number of large markets" ... Read more
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| Supported Event |
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Biomed Innovation Summit 2013
14-15th March, 2013 SHANGHAI, CHINA
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Partnership
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Obagi Medical Products and Suneva Medical Partner to Offer ReGenica Facial Rejuvenation Complex
The Long Beach-based Obagi Medical Products, Inc., a leader in topical aesthetic and therapeutic skin-health systems, and the Santa Barbara-based Suneva Medical, Inc., a rapidly growing aesthetics company, jointly announce a partnership to co-distribute ReGenica Facial Rejuvenation Complex ... Read more
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Neuro-stimulation
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Bioness Receives FDA Clearance of FES for
Pediatric Foot Drop
 The Valencia, Calif.-based comoany announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its L300 Foot Drop System to pediatric patients and their caregivers. This is the first FDA-cleared neurostimulation device of this kind for use with children ... 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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