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SoCalBio Vendor Spotlight
Atheln Inc.
A SoCalBio Member Since 2011
Co-founded and led by Ms Monica Alfaro Welling, Atheln is a multi-disciplinary life science consulting firm with a broad range of execution capabilities in bioscience product development and commercialization... Learn more
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April 29, 2013
|  Editor: Ahmed Enany
President & CEO
Southern California
Biomedical Council
enany@socalbio.org
www.socalbio.org
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| Under the Spotlight | |
Bionic Eye Maker Has Vision of the Future
Second Sight Medical Products in Sylmar has won approval from the FDA to sell its bionic eye, which helps people regain some of their vision.
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| BioGENEius Winners | SoCalBio Applauds the California Students Who Swept the International BioGENEius Award Competition
The Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio) congratulates California high school students who dominated the 2013 International BioGENEius Award Competition, held this week in tandem with the International BIO Convention in Chicago. The annual competition is staged by the Biotechnology Institute in collaboration with regional trade organizations (including SoCalBio) from around the world. The goal is to honor and draw attention to outstanding research in biotechnology performed by high school students.... Read Press Release
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Talent Development
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SoCalBio Contributes to Biotech/Biopharma Talent Development in Southern California:
Industry to Develop Valley College Biomanufacturing Technician Training Program
 The San Fernando Business Journal covers the SoCalBio-initiated and DOL-funded three-year project that establishes the Community College Consortium for Biosciences Credentials. This project will be centered at Los Angeloes Valley College in the San Fernando Valley. The project's objective is to develop core bio-manufacturing competencies and introduce stackable and latticed credentials to help trade-impacted workers get new jobs..... Click here to access the article
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| Welcome, New SoCalBio Members | Kite Pharmaceuticals (Los Angeles)
Kite is a UCLA spin-off that is
advancing a portfolio of proprietary product candidates designed to leverage and enhance the patient's own immune system to fight tumor cells ... Learn more
Tempest Technologies (Los Angeles)
Tempest Technologies
is a professional services firm devoted to advancing the objectives of government, non-governmental organizations and private industry clients through quantitative research methods, mathematical and statistical modeling and analysis, and software engineering and development .... Learn more
Racer Technology (Singapore)
Established in December 1988, Racer Technology specializes in manufacturing of high quality precision plastic components and sub assemblies for medical device and other industries.... Learn more
Micro Quality Labs (Burbank)
Micro Quality Labs offers a comprehensive range of contract testing services to the Cosmetic, Nutritional, Pharmaceutical, OTC and household products industries ... Learn more
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| Trends | |
Proportion of Women Angel Investors Rose in 2012
 A new report by Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire shows that the proportion of active women angel investors allocating funds to healthcare and biotechnology, among other sectors, nearly doubled in 2012. Angel investors who are women rose from 11 percent in 2011 to 22 percent in 2012, according to the report analyzing angel investment trends over the past year ... Read more
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New Funding
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ReVision Optics Raises $15 Million
 Lake Forest-based ReVision Optics Inc. said in a regulatory filing today that it raised $15 million. ReVision makes the Raindrop, a replacement eye lens implanted through a small, laser-created opening in a patient's cornea. It is geared toward people 45 to 60 years old with presbyopia, a condition where the eye loses its ability to focus close-up as it ages .... Read more
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| Incubators |
Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative Adds
Third Wet Lab Space
For nearly a decade the Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative (PBC)has offered scientists a low cost way to perform research. PBC is a not for profit early stage incubator that has proven to be a key factor for CEO's as they begin the complexities of starting a new company. Word has spread fast. In 2004 the PBC began with a single company, by 2013 that number has risen to 17 with a number of potential tenants waiting for grant approval .. Read more
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| Oncology | |
Report Lists 241 Drugs Under Development for
Blood Cancer
 The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said 241 medicines were in clinical development or under review by the Food and Drug Administration, including 98 for lymphoma, 97 for leukemia, 52 for multiple myeloma and 24 for malignancies of the bone marrow, blood and lymph nodes ... Read more
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Personalized Medicine
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Personalized Medicine Market Reaching Its Adolescence
 While the intrinsic value of using companion diagnostics to target the right drugs to the right patients is recognized by all components of the health care system, including drugmakers, diagnostic developers, clinician and patient interest groups and payers, more cohesion is needed among all those parties - and at earlier stages in development - for personalized medicine to reach its potential value ... Read more
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Ophthalmics
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Staar Surgical Jumps on Better-Than-Expected Revenues
 The Monrovia company, which late Monday announced some of its financials ahead of investor meetings this week and a medical conference next week, said it expects to report revenue of $18 million, compared with a Wall Street consensus of $16.5 million ... 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 | |
STAAR Surgical (Monrovia)
SynTouch LLP (Los Angeles)
Keck Graduate Institute (Claremont)
ImaginAB (Inglewood)
Absorption Systems (San Diego)
Replenish Inc. (Pasadena)
Click here for more info and to apply
- Electrical Engineer (REQ #:12-04)
- Facilities Maintenance Worker (REQ #:12-29)
- Process Engineer/MEMS Fabrication (REQ #:12-31)
- Process Development Engineer (REQ #:12-32)
- Process Development Engineer (REQ #:12-33)
Puma Biotechnology (Los Angeles)
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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 |
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