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Monday, February 22, 2010
If students want to earn a few greenbacks when they graduate, Ventura College thinks they need to learn about the green economy first.
As part of an initiative to better train students for “green jobs,” the college is offering a scholarship program for students who incorporate green technologies in their studies.
“Just having the green jobs is one thing, but having qualified applicants for those jobs is another thing,” said Norbert Tan, director of the Ventura College Foundation. “We are hoping to prepare a campus of potential employees for these green jobs.”Read Full Article
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
BayBio, an independent trade association serving the life science industry in Northern California, and Assemblyman Jerry Hill have announced legislation to retain and attract California’s second largest employing industry.
Stressing on the significance of biotech jobs, Hill said, “With a combined workforce of over 750,000, California’s biomedical industry is a worldwide leader in life saving treatments and devices. As lawmakers we need to ensure that California doesn’t become to biotechnology what Michigan has become to the auto industry.”Read Full Article
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Kirk Haney is focused on the business of biofuels. Haney and his crew at Encinitas-based SG Biofuels are working on turning a Central American shrub called jatropha into the next cash crop for “greening” transportation around the globe.
Jatropha seeds contain high amounts of oil that can be used for a variety of bio-based materials, including biodiesel and feedstock substitutes for the petrochemical and jet fuel industries. It can be effectively grown on marginal lands that are considered undesirable for other crops. The nonedible shrub made its debut in the biofuel spotlight a few years ago, but quickly fizzled out of the limelight due to exaggerated and unrealistic promises by some of its proponents. Today, a handful of companies like SG Biofuels have brought jatropha back to center stage and are developing sustainable and viable business plans to go along with it.Read Full Article
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
It’s clear to most health-care investors and industry insiders that biotech drugs are the future of the pharmaceutical industry, but those tiny biotechs that seem so promising need a lot of support from the government and venture capitalists.
California has always been the center for this innovative industry. A recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the California Healthcare Institute shows the status of that sector and how it can act as a bellwether for the industry as a whole.Read Full Article
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
A study has described the biomedical industry as one of the most recession-resilient sectors in California’s hard-hit economy.
According to a report released by the California Healthcare Institute (CHI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the biomedical industry is a critical driver of innovation, job growth and revenue that will help lead the state to economic recovery.
At the same time, the California biomedical industry is facing unprecedented challenges and that its biomedical leadership is being tested as other regions compete for biomedical research and manufacturing jobs.Read Full Article
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
As other industries try to stay afloat, a report released Tuesday shows that the Bay Area life science industry is on an upswing in both productivity and job creation.
In 2009, California companies were responsible for 1,754 treatments, up from 1,294 last year according to the study, Impact: 2010, released by life science trade association BayBio. The annual report also showed that Northern California currently has 1,190 new drugs and medical dRead Full Article
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Jobs in California’s so-called green economy increased by 36% from 1995 to 2008, beating the state’s 13% job growth, a study out Wednesday says.
The research, by Silicon Valley-based research firm Collaborative Economics, underscores California’s lead in the “green economy” and may indicate where other states can expect green-job growth.
California’s jobs in green businesses numbered 159,000 as of January 2008, accounting for less than 1% of jobs statewide, the research shows. But jobs in green businesses may be holding up better than others.Read Full Article
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Amunix, Inc. and Versartis, Inc. announced today that the scientific journal Nature Biotechnology has published a comprehensive paper entitled “A recombinant polypeptide extends the in vivo half-life of peptides and proteins in a tunable manner.” The paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1588) describes the design of Amunix’s polypeptide sequence XTEN and presents preclinical data for Versartis’ product candidates VRS-859 as a monthly-dosed treatment for type 2 diabetes and VRS-317 as a monthly-dosed treatment for growth hormone deficiency.
The published data demonstrate that XTEN, a technology for half-life extension, can provide an effective means for prolonging the in vivo half-life of therapeutic peptides and proteins. With a longer half-life, patients have improved convenience and compliance with comparable efficacy to the drug without XTEN. XTEN is an unstructured recombinant polypeptide that is genetically fused to a peptide or protein. The XTEN sequence has been specifically designed to have low immunogenicity and good manufacturability, making it a generic platform technology applicable to a wide variety of peptide and protein therapeutics. The publication presents, for the first time, the example case of the exenatide peptide fused to XTEN, with a projected human half-life of 139 hours, and preclinical data on human growth hormone fused to XTEN with a half-life in monkeys of 110 hours.Read Full Article
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Friday, November 20, 2009
CHI-California Healthcare Institute today will gather opinion leaders from the science, business and public sectors to discuss opportunities and issues facing the biomedical community for the 2009 California Healthcare Policy Forum.Read Full Article
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Hoping to carve out a role for nanotechnology in treating life-threatening diseases, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a medical research institute in San Diego County have formed a multimillion-dollar partnership to recruit up to 150 scientists and support staff and house a research center at UCSB.
Called the “Center for Nanomedicine,” the UCSB-Burnham Institute for Medical Research effort will start by pairing three nanotechnology researchers and three biologists to work on drug discovery, delivery systems and new imaging technology. Funding will come from a variety of research grants as well as private donations.
The partnership will eventually recruit a dozen faculty scientists, half to the faculty of UCSB and half to the Burnham Institute, and make its home on a whole floor of a research building at UCSB due for completion in 2016. Overall, the effort would create as many as 150 jobs for scientists and support staff.Read Full Article
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