Things were hopping over the past week in San Diego. Get into the rhythm here.
San Diegos West Wireless Health Institute named Donald Casey chief executive officer. Casey was formerly worldwide chairman of Johnson & Johnsons comprehensive care group. The Institute was founded last year with a $45 million gift from telemarketing and communications entrepreneurs Gary and Mary West.
Tocagen raised nearly $7.8 million in a Series D round that began Fe...
San Diego-based Anadys Pharmaceuticals reports that its hepatitis C drug appears to get better at wiping out the virus over time, although the company will have some explaining to do about why patients on a placebo appear to be doing almost as well.
Anadys (NASDAQ: ANDS) is announcing today that its lead product candidate, ANA598, when given in combination with standard therapies, was able to eliminate any sign of the liver-damaging virus i...
Sometimes in biotech you have to root for your biggest competitors to succeed. Thats why yesterday was a very good day for the folks at San Diego-based Ocera Therapeutics.
The big news came out yesterday from suburban Washington D.C., where an FDA advisory panel recommended that regulators approve a new drug from Morrisville, NC-based Salix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SLXP). The drug, rifaximin (Xifaxan), is designed to treat hepatic encephalopathy, a condition...
Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego biofuels developer, today named a top executive from San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), the maker of genetic sequencing tools, as its chief operating officer. Joel McComb, a senior vice president and general manager of Illuminas $650 million life sciences business unit, will start March 1 and report to J. Craig Venter, Synthetic Genomics founder and CEO.
Call it an example of newfound pragmatism among the flat-rate wireless service providers, which are coming under growing pressure to consolidate.
San Diegos Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) announced today that its forming a joint venture with San Antonio, TX-based Pocket Communications that will provide pre-paid wireless services to customers of both companies in South Texas. As joint ventures go, however, this one clearly puts Leap in the d...