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—San Diego’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals says Bydureon, its new once-a-week drug for treating Type 2 diabetes can hit the market as early as next month, after the FDA cleared Bydureon. The FDA rejected the Amylin’s drug twice before. An estimated 26 million... Read more »
When it comes to tech startups—especially in Internet software and app development—San Diego has been adrift in the horse latitudes. That’s the term Spanish mariners had for the waters where the trade winds died out for days and even weeks at... Read more »
At Xconomy’s event yesterday, New York’s Venture Emergence, members of Gilt Groupe’s founding team fascinated a standing-room-only audience with the tale of how, in just four years, they grew from a scrappy startup to one of the most successful e-commerce sites on the... Read more »
Employment in San Diego’s life sciences sector grew by 15 percent over the past two years, as biopharmas, medical device companies, and other employers added roughly 5,550 jobs here—raising employment in the sector to 41,937 in 2011, according to a report released... Read more »
After previewing its expansion plans last summer, San Diego’s EvoNexus, the free startup incubator established by the non-profit technology group CommNexus, has opened a newly renovated downtown office space. A dozen early stage companies began moving into the incubator Monday.
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Bonnie Ramsey said three years ago that a cystic fibrosis drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals was a huge medical advance in the making, and would end up being an achievement on par with putting a man on the moon, at least for her patients.
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Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute
Executive Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
CEO, CONNECT
Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures
Co-Founder and Chairman, Cleantech San Diego
Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego
Co-Founder, VP of Technology, Entropic Communications
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory
President and CEO, Anadys Pharmaceuticals
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute
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