Bruce V. Bigelow

Bruce Bigelow joins Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.

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San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Health IT, Illumina, & More

San Diego’s digital health community was following a three-day hearing on health IT held in Washington D.C. The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations said it was focused on potential regulations... Read more »
Pyxis Founder Ron Taylor Joins Connect Entrepreneur Hall of Fame

To the fictional emergency room staff on the Showtime TV series “Nurse Jackie,” the computerized drug dispenser is a source of mischief and dramatic suspense, often referred to as “the Pyxis”... Read more »
Study Says Medical Device Interoperability Could Save $30B a Year

Like a proverbial Tower of Babel, hospitals nowadays come with medical devices that are unable to share critical data—but innovation enabling health care equipment and systems to share information could save... Read more »
UCSD Business School’s Venture Fund Joins Texas Startup’s $16M Deal

After launching its student-run Rady Venture Fund three years ago, UCSD’s Rady School of Management says today it has invested $25,000 in its biggest deal so far—a $16 million Series B... Read more »
Sapphire Energy Signs Deal with Tesoro, Begins Year-Round Production

San Diego-based Sapphire Energy says today it has agreed to supply crude oil produced from algae at its “Green Crude Farm” near Columbus, NM, under a new commercial agreement with Tesoro,... Read more »
ViaSat Enrolls 285K in Internet Satellite Service; CEO Talks Costs

As the “Satellite 2013” conference gets underway this week in Washington D.C., Carlsbad, CA-based ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT) says more than 285,000 subscribers have signed up for its satellite-based Internet service,... Read more »
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Ambit, Lithera, Histogen, & More

Here’s our wrap up of the latest developments in San Diego’s life sciences community.

—The increasing importance of emerging markets to portfolio companies of life sciences VC Domain Associates led partner... Read more »
New Domain Partnership Focuses on China’s Emerging Healthcare Market

Domain Associates, the life sciences venture firm based in San Diego and Princeton, NJ, says today it has formed a partnership with the Beijing-based firm Elite Consulting to license biomedical products... Read more »
With Kythera as Model, Lithera Tests Drug to Shrink ‘Love Handles’

At the end of last year, the venture fund established by Domain Associates and Russia’s Rusnano disclosed that they had invested $20.6 million in San Diego-based Lithera, an aesthetic biotech developing... Read more »
Ambit Still Committed to Leukemia Drug After Astellas Ends Pact

[Corrected 3/12/13, 11:55 pm. See below.] They say that breaking up is hard to do. Ambit Biosciences knows that it’s true.

After Japan’s Astellas Pharma said last night it... Read more »
Histogen Forms Joint Venture to Advance Regenerative Orthopedics

San Diego-based Histogen, a regenerative medicine company founded in 2007, says today it has partnered with a group of medical device investors to establish a joint venture, PUR Biologics, to adapt... Read more »
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Life Technologies, Althea, Sorrento

The week’s biggest news just might be a fresh round of rumors concerning a possible buyout at Life Technologies. From the biggest to the smallest, here’s our briefing of San Diego’s... Read more »
Japan’s Ajinomoto Acquires Contract Drug Maker Althea Technologies

[Updated 3/7/13 7:34 am to include terms, other details. See below.] Ajinomoto, a Japanese food, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals manufacturer, is acquiring San Diego-based Althea Technologies, a contract manufacturer... Read more »
LIA Raises $400K for Mobile App Targeting Enterprise-Scale Customers

After a period of relatively rapid software development, San Diego-based LIA has raised $400,000 in seed financing to extend development of its mobile app and secure, Web-based platform for enterprise-scale customers.... Read more »
Synteract Acquires Harrison Clinical Research to Form Global CRO

At the DIA EuroMeeting in Amsterdam today, Synteract, a Carlsbad, CA-based contract research organization (CRO), says it has acquired Harrison Clinical Research, an international CRO based in Munich, Germany. The combined... Read more »
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Optimer, Zogenix, MediciNova, & More

We saw a flurry of updates from San Diego’s biotech and medical device companies over the past week, running the gamut from the formation of a new startup to funding deals... Read more »
Feds Scrutinizing Stock Grant to Former Optimer Chairman

San Diego’s Optimer Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OPTR) said yesterday the filing of its official annual 10-K financial statement would be delayed because of a management shakeup disclosed earlier this week, along... Read more »
Testing New Business Model, Araxes Pharma Signs Deal with Janssen

In a short announcement yesterday, a previously unknown San Diego startup called Araxes Pharma said it entered into an exclusive partnership with Janssen Biotech of Horsham, PA, to develop a new... Read more »
San Diego’s Biotech Leaders of Tomorrow: ‘We Are the Wildcatters’

(Xconomy contributor Juliet Preston helped pull this story together)

One more sign that the U.S. life sciences industry is in upheaval became evident last month, when the Chicago real estate group... Read more »
Casting a Wide Net, Anametrix Offers Big Clients Holistic Analytics

As an estimated 2,000 online retailers gather in Palm Desert, CA, today for the eTail West Conference, San Diego’s Anametrix says it’s introducing a new mobile app to give its corporate... Read more »

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