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Announcing Xconomy Napa Summit 2013: New Rules for Growth
Posted by sandiegobiotech April 29th, 2013 .
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Finally, the economy seems to be heading in the right direction, but frustratingly slowly—and peril lurks around every sequester corner. Is that the new normal in this age of rising healthcare costs,…

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April 29th SDBN Biotech Journalism Panel: How Can We Improve Life Science Funding Through Better Communication?
Posted by Mary Canady April 1st, 2013 .
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San Diego’s biotech hub is both comparable and distinguished from other regions such as Boston and San Francisco. A recent report ranked us highly compared to other life science clusters and attributed the success to our cohesiveness as a community, but also noted that our funding is far behind the Boston and San Francisco regions. In addition, sequestration threatens to impact not just our academic institutions, but the research and intellectual property that fuels our industry.
Our 400 biotech companies and 5 major research institutions are covered in only a handful …

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SDBN October 22nd 2012 Event: ScienceOnline, What’s In It For Me?
Posted by Mary Canady October 3rd, 2012 .
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ScienceOnline groups have been cropping up all over the country and we are starting a group in southern California, with some help from folks in LA. At SDBN and other events, we see skepticism from local researchers as to whether the benefits outweigh the risks. Let’s hash it out with a panel of online science experts. From fast publishing, to fundraising, to finding a job, participating in science online has many benefits. The perceived risks may include divulging intellectual property or information and being seen as wasting time by your …

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SDBN August 21st 2012 Event At The Sanford Consortium For Regenerative Medicine
Posted by Mary Canady August 3rd, 2012 .
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The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine is a stem cell research facility representing a collaboration between five of San Diego’s finest research institutions: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, The Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. This new “collaboratory” opened in November of 2011, ideally located between the institutions in La Jolla, and demonstrates the power and potential of working together to fight disease. At our SDBN event August 21st, Evan Snyder, M.D., Ph.D., director of …

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Announcing Xconomy’s Napa Summit: Keeping America Growing
Posted by sandiegobiotech April 26th, 2012 .
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As the Presidential campaign heats up, one of the most pressing issues on the minds of candidates and voters alike is the future of American growth and competitiveness. So it is our great pleasure to…

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17th Annual UCSD Bioengineering Breakfast with Industry
Posted by jobs October 17th, 2011 .
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Please join us for the Bioengineering Graduate Society’s 17th Annual Breakfast with Industry. Network with current bioengineering graduate students and faculty over a catered breakfast buffet and listen to this year’s keynote speaker: Dr. Gail K. Naughton, CEO and Chairman, Histogen, Inc.
Dr. Naughton founded Histogen, Inc. in 2007, and currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board for the Company. She has spent more than 25 years extensively researching the tissue engineering process, holds more than 95 U.S. and foreign patents and has been extensively published in the field. …

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INCOSE Systems Engineering: The Bridge between the Aerospace and Medical Industries
Posted by jobs October 17th, 2011 .
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16th Annual INCOSE Region II Fall Mini-Conference
Systems Engineering: The Bridge between the Aerospace and Medical Industries
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Attend this day of stimulating thought and discussion centered around the questions: How is classical Systems Engineering applied to the aerospace and medical industries (e.g., design requirements, verification, validation). Do these industries have similar or different approaches to SE and what can they learn from each other. The medical industry and FDA have recently come under fire for allowing unsafe products on the market – can SE help improve the safety, efficacy and quality …

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Xconomist of the Week: Five Questions for New York Life Sciences 2031 Panelist Eric Schadt
Posted by sandiegobiotech October 6th, 2011 .
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Eric Schadt’s career as a scientist has been focused on unlocking genetic cues to common human diseases such as diabetes and obesity. He is the chief scientific officer of Pacific Biosciences,…

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Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum
Posted by sandiegobiotech September 29th, 2011 .
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As Pfizer’s vice president of venture capital, Barbara Dalton will bring two valuable perspectives to Xconomy’s Life Sciences 2031 panel discussion on October 13: that of a VC and that of…

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Moores UCSD Cancer Center Survivor Beach
Posted by jobs May 25th, 2011 .
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Are you a cancer survivor? Do you want to help more people beat cancer? Do you want to make history?
Come join the Moores UCSD Cancer Center and help break the record for longest line of surfboards.
Participants form a symbol of support by creating the longest line of surfboards laying in the sand nose-to-tail. The line starts at Scripps Pier and extends towards La Jolla Shores. Last year, approximately 200 people made a line that was just over three football fields long.
Come this year and…
*Help us break …