DNA sequencing giant Illumina announced Thursday that it would enter the field of drug discovery, a major shift for a company that, since its founding in 1998, has thrived instead by selling picks and shovels […]
SAN DIEGO — Bay Area biotech Guardant Health is closer than ever to its ultimate goal — developing and deploying a simple, blood-based test that you could get during an annual doctor’s visit to spot […]
San Diego biotech Halozyme announced Wednesday that it plans to buy drug development and delivery firm Antares Pharma for about $960 million. The deal, expected to go through by the first half of this year, […]
SAN DIEGO — If you’d seen him, you wouldn’t have known Scott Lippman was living through one of the most harrowing days of his 35-year career. The veteran oncologist, who directs UC San Diego’s Moores […]
DNA sequencing giant Illumina is suing Guardant Health, a firm that has become both its customer and rival, claiming that the patents at the core of Guardant’s quest to detect cancer with a simple blood […]
The biggest question in entrepreneurship is how does one take an idea and make it reality, make it something that?s tangible and positively affects an individual and society as a whole. This was the theme […]
Now that SLAS 2012 has wrapped up, the question is, amid all of those robotic arms, who truly stood out? We saw some great examples of vendors who were able to draw the crowds, while […]
This spring San Diego downtown will be buzzing with scientific discussions as our city hosts a number of major scientific symposia.? We are excited to attend and soak in all the science that will be […]
We asked you recently how you want to celebrate the San Diego Biotechnology Network’s 2nd anniversary and the answer is clear: you want to party! We certainly need to take a break and celebrate, let’s […]
We’re going to try something new for the San Diego Biotechnology Network in September. The folks at Halozyme have offered to start hosting events quarterly at their site in Sorrento Valley, and we’ll kick of […]
Mary Canady BarcampSD 7 ‘Crowdsourcing Cat Herding’ from Mary Canady on Vimeo. I presented at a local ‘unconference’ called Barcamp recently in San Diego. The event is great because it is unscripted and interdisciplinary, and […]
Wednesday I attended a regenerative medicine-focused breakfast at the BIO convention and learned about San Diego company Advanced BioHealing (ABH), who took a ‘fallen’ asset, Dermagraft, and not only turned it into an $85M/year product, […]
On the San Diego Biotechnology Network LinkedIn group, we asked you what you wanted to hear about from the BIO Convention in Chicago, and you requested to hear about Biomarkers. Tuesday I attended a breakout […]
I attended the translational research forum Monday morning at the BIO 2010 convention in Chicago. The morning started with Congressman Dan Lipinski from Illinois, who was a great choice as he is a member of […]
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