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• Xconomist of the Week: Evan Snyder—Stem Cell Reality Check

  San Diego Xconomist Evan Snyder has been called a “stem cell revolutionary” and is regarded as a father in the field of stem cell research. When we talked in his office at San Diego’s Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, he told me he... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/25/12

  • Life Sciences

  • people

  • Stem Cells

• Can Pocket (née Read It Later) Become the TiVo of the Web?

  On the iPhone, the first page of the home screen—the one you see when you wake up the device—has room for only 20 apps, counting those in the dock. The iPad home screen holds 26. For me, that means the home... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/25/12

  • National

  • IT

  • startups

  • publishing

• Nokia Joins X Prize in $2.25M Wireless Health “Sensing Challenge”

  When the X Prize Foundation’s Peter Diamandis took the stage in San Diego this morning at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) annual convergence summit, he said it was the perfect audience for announcing the foundation’s newest competition—the “Nokia Sensing X Challenge.”

  The challenge,... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/24/12

  • Health IT

  • Wireless Health

  • Incentive Prizes

• SD Life Sciences Roundup: Takeda Consolidates, Startups Raise Cash

  It’s been a busy week for startup funding, with Obalon Therapeutics, Aperio Technologies, Topera, and Ivera Medical closing on financing deals. We’ve also got drug development news from Ocera Therapeutics and MediciNova.

  —Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical said it’s closing its center of excellence in... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/24/12

  • Roundup

  • Life Sciences

  • deals

• MediciNova Misses Primary Goal in Mid-Stage Trial of IV Asthma Drug

  It was clear that San Diego’s MediciNova (NASDAQ: MNOV) had a lot riding on the outcome of a mid-stage trial of the company’s lead drug candidate, bedoradrine sulfate. As I reported recently, MediciNova has been developing the compound to treat acute asthma attacks... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/23/12

  • Life Sciences

  • clinical trials

  • Asthma

• Analytic Software Wins Janssen Prize to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

  A team developing analytic software that scores patients for the risk they pose to being readmitted within 30 days after being discharged from a hospital is the winner of the inaugural Janssen Connected Care Challenge. The prize is sponsored by Janssen, a unit... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/23/12

  • healthcare

  • innovation

  • Incentive Prizes

• San Diego BizTech Roundup: Qualcomm, Helix Wind, and ‘Skqueak’

  Here’s a potpourri of San Diego tech news, large and small, fresh from the local fields of innovation.

  —San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the world’s biggest manufacturer of wireless chipsets, said it has renewed its global QPrize venture investment competition for the... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/22/12

  • Roundup

  • Technology

  • innovation

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