Novartis to acquire San Diego-based Regulus in deal worth up to $1.7B
Access to potential breakthrough treatment for kidney disease is a key part of the deal
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Illumina announces another round of layoffs in San Diego
The gene sequencing giant will lose 172 employees, on top of recently announced layoffs totaling...
Amid tariff turmoil, Swiss drugmaker commits to build $1.1B research hub in San Diego
Novartis plans to make San Diego the center of its West Coast research hub.
Pharmaceutical company plans 14-acre expansion in Oceanside corporate center
OCEANSIDE — Gilead Sciences Inc. plans to build a new manufacturing center on 14 acres alongside its...
San Diego’s DermTech trims staff to conserve cash as it pushes scalpel-free diagnostic test for melanoma
San Diego’s DermTech has cut about 40 jobs and shelved certain research programs to focus...
San Diego startups show off a deep-sea camera, wireless streaming via touch
DeepWater Exploration rolled out a compact, rugged camera last year capable of delivering non-distorted imagery...
San Diego company’s new wearable device will help diabetics eat right, lose weight
San Diego’s Dexcom, a maker of continuous glucose monitors, laid out plans for a new...
After boom years, San Diego startups now having tougher time finding money to grow
For Bijan Moallemi and other startup entrepreneurs, the rules of the game for raising venture...
Illumina CEO resigns following push by activist investor Carl Icahn to remove him
Illumina CEO Francis deSouza has resigned, just weeks after the DNA sequencing company endured a...
UC San Diego Health rebuts claim that patient safety is ‘at risk’ at Moores Cancer Center
UC San Diego Health leaders are pushing back against a recent article in an influential...
Life’s work: San Diego startup grew from desire to save a father but now it could help many more
Sometimes, hard science is personal.Sharif Tabebordbar's father suffers from facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease...
Moderna, Pfizer sued over technology developed by San Diego researchers that made COVID-19 vaccine possible
Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech were named in lawsuits Tuesday that accuse them of stealing a...
Software snafu leads to 400 Grail patients getting bogus letters saying they might have cancer
Cancer screening outfit Grail said Friday that a software glitch at a third-party telemedicine vendor...
Shareholder vote totals in Illumina’s proxy fight with activist Carl Icahn show , frustration
Illumina Chief Executive Francis deSouza received 71 percent shareholder to remain on the DNA...
Construction starts on Pacific Center, a $650M life science campus in Sorrento Mesa
Nearly 18 months after spending more than a half-billion dollars to buy a substantial plot...
San Diego’s Illumina gets split decision in proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn
San Diego’s Illumina dodged the worst in its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn...
Rady Children’s lands $2.5 million donation to advance neuro-oncology research
Rady Children’s Hospital has received a $2.5 million gift to neuro-oncology research, with an...
Illumina proxy fight with activist Carl Icahn nears conclusion as shareholder advisers weigh in
Illumina’s battle against activist investor Carl Icahn comes to a head this week — with...
San Diego biotech pulls in $100M for precision therapy for hard-to-treat tumors
San Diego’s Boundless Bio, which is developing precision therapies to block certain genes from morphing...
San Diego startup helps cancer patients keep their hair during treatment
For Kate Dilligan, helping chemotherapy patients keep their hair is not about beauty. It’s about...
Mega life science development on University City hilltop nears approval
Life science real estate developer BioMed Realty is close to securing the permits necessary to...
San Diego’s Cue Health – testmaker that sold COVID-19 kits to NBA, Google – lays off 30% of workforce
San Diego’s Cue Health, which saw huge demand for its 20-minute COVID-19 tests from the...
Thermo Fisher closing 3 San Diego facilities, laying off 218 workers
Thermo Fisher Scientific is shutting down three San Diego facilities and laying off 218 workers...
Merck paying $10.8B for San Diego biotech that focuses on Crohn’s disease, colitis
Prometheus Biosciences, which has been on a roll since last fall’s positive results in a...
FTC orders San Diego’s Illumina to unwind $7.1B Grail merger
U.S. antitrust regulators have ordered San Diego’s Illumina to unwind its $7 billion acquisition of...
Carl Icahn turns up heat on Illumina, claims board got extra insurance ahead of Grail merger
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn fired another salvo of criticism at San Diego’s Illumina on Friday,...
San Diego women’s health company, Evofem, cuts CEO salary 40% and other staff pay by 20%
Evofem Biosciences, a San Diego-based contraceptive maker, Tuesday announced a cost-cutting plan that includes layoffs...
Thermo Fisher cuts 154 workers in another round of San Diego layoffs
Thermo Fisher Scientific is laying off 154 people in San Diego, citing a downturn in...
Qualcomm lays off more workers in San Diego amid smartphone sales slump
Qualcomm shaved 79 jobs from its San Diego headquarters last month as the mobile chip...
SDSU selects developer to build first office, lab buildings at Mission Valley campus
San Diego State University has picked Los Angeles-based builder LPC West to erect the first...
Ionis Pharmaceuticals plans large expansion in Carlsbad
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, which recently announced it will open a sprawling research-and-development center in Oceanside, also...
San Diego women’s health company that makes non-hormonal birth control offers itself for sale
San Diego biopharmaceutical company Evofem Biosciences is exploring a merger or acquisition to raise funds...
Pfizer shedding more than 100 jobs at its San Diego research and development center
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is cutting 111 jobs from its San Diego research and development organization...
Genentech expands in Oceanside with $450M biotech manufacturing facility and 150 jobs
Biotechnology company Genentech is expanding its local manufacturing capabilities with a $450 million investment in...
San Diego startup Faro Health snags $20M for software to improve clinical drug trials
San Diego’s Faro Health, a cloud-computing startup that provides software for planning and running complex...
San Diego drug developer Sorrento Therapeutics files for bankruptcy amid legal battles
San Diego’s Sorrento Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week after a setback...
San Diego spine surgery firm NuVasive acquired by rival Globus Medical in $3.1B deal
Long-time San Diego spine surgery technology company NuVasive is being acquired by rival Globus Medical...
Thermo Fisher lays off 230 people in San Diego
Thermo Fisher Scientific is cutting 230 jobs in San Diego amid sliding demand for COVID-19...
ResMed rings up record $1B in sales in latest quarter led by connected sleep apnea devices
For the past 18 months, ResMed Chief Executive Mick Farrell has been publicly outspoken in...
San Diego biotech lands $46M for treatment targeting life-threatening swelling attacks
ADARx Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego startup working on RNA precision medicine technologies, has snagged $46...
San Diego company’s test to detect pancreatic cancer in early stages moves to human trials
For more than a decade, Biological Dynamics has been working on technology licensed out of...
Local biotech leader promotes STEM careers for minorities
The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, had profound aftereffects nationwide. One unexpected...
La Jolla Institute immunologist wins prestigious award
Immunologist Shane Crotty of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology is this year's recipient of...
‘There needed to be a correction.’ Investment in San Diego startups drops by half in 2022
Given global economic headwinds, there was little doubt that venture capital funding for San Diego...
San Diego’s Cue Health cuts 388 jobs – the COVID-19 test maker’s second layoff in a year
San Diego's Cue Health, a COVID-19 test maker that grew voraciously during the pandemic, is...
San Diego’s Fate Therapeutics lays off 315 employees – more than half of its workforce
Fate Therapeutics, a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company, is laying off more than half of its...
Prometheus Bio’s shares soar on results of early clinical studies for inflammatory disease therapy
Shares of San Diego's Prometheus Biosciences jumped more than 200 percent this week following positive...
San Diego’s Avalon BioVentures raises $135M to invest in biotech, health care startups
San Diego’s Avalon Ventures has pumped some $750 million into early-stage startups in both the...
San Diego biotech Escient Pharmaceuticals pulls in $120M to pursue novel drug candidates
San Diego’s Escient Pharmaceuticals said this week that it landed a $120 million investment to...
The new superstars: San Diego’s Dexcom signs 14 college athletes with diabetes
A few months before his final high school baseball season, Bryce Frederick had a blood...
San Diego’s Illumina cuts 207 jobs in San Diego as part of global workforce reduction
San Diego’s Illumina said this week that it will trim its global workforce by 5...
Oceanside approves sale of park property for pharmaceutical site
Oceanside approved the sale of 51 acres of El Corazon Park this week to a...
MedCrypt nets $25M to enhance cybersecurity on medical devices
San Diego’s MedCrypt, which provides cybersecurity technology for medical devices, snagged $25 million in a...
Ionis Pharmaceuticals may open R&D center in Oceanside’s El Corazon Park
A plan by Ionis Pharmaceuticals to open a development and manufacturing center with 200 new,...
Dexcom’s stock soars nearly 20 percent on growing adoption of wearable glucose monitors
Shares of Dexcom surged almost 20 percent Friday after the San Diego company posted better-than-expected...
Maybe it won’t be San Diego’s Illumina sequencing your DNA but one of its rivals?
It’s been nearly 15 years since San Diego’s Illumina gained supremacy in DNA sequencing —...
San Diego biotech raises $11.8 million to help bald people regrow hair
Amplifica Holdings Group, a San Diego biotech startup working to help balding people regrow their...
Boom is over: Funding for San Diego startups stalls as markets swoon
San Diego startups continue to be swept up in the turmoil of global financial markets,...
San Diego startup Pleno snags $40 million to enhance analysis of biomarkers to help fight disease
San Diego’s Pleno, a startup that’s using signal processing techniques from cellular communications to increase...
Bill Gates tells San Diego audience that genomics is key technology for dodging the next global pandemic
Improvements in global health outcomes over the last two decades stalled during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
San Diego-based Illumina’s new DNA sequencing equipment can map your genome for $200
San Diego’s Illumina is getting closer to sequencing full human genomes at a cost that’s...
Why celebrity chef Richard Blais is opening restaurants in Sorrento Mesa
Celebrity chef, TV personality and Del Mar resident Richard Blais is cooking up a California-inspired...
Obama tells San Diego audience precision medicine held back by ‘creaky’ health care system
Former President Barack Obama lauded the advances that researchers are making in precision medicine but...
Former President Obama, Bill Gates headline Illumina’s Genomics Forum next week in San Diego
Tailoring healthcare to an individual’s genetics has long held the promise of transforming medicine. Next...
John Hancock becomes first life insurer to pay for Grail’s early detection cancer test
Grail, an Illumina-owned maker of a blood test that screens for 50 different types of...
Sanford Burnham Prebys gets new CEO from UC San Diego
Sanford Burnham Prebys, one of a cluster of biomedical research institutes on San Diego’s Torrey...
San Diego’s Autobahn Therapeutics raises $32.7 million to pursue depression treatment
Autobahn Therapeutics, a San Diego startup working on a therapy for treatment-resistant depression, has raised...
European regulators move to block Illumina’s $7.1 billion acquisition of Grail
Europe’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday moved to block San Diego’s Illumina from acquiring Grail —...
Illumina racks up win in FTC antitrust case over Grail acquisition
San Diego’s Illumina won a legal battle Thursday against U.S. antitrust regulators who sought to...
The 10 highest-paid CEOs in San Diego
CEOs at San Diego's public companies saw their pay surge 33 percent on average last...
How we calculate executive pay for San Diego CEOs
For years, U.S. publicly traded companies have been required to disclose what their top executives...
San Diego CEOS ring up hefty pay gains, driven by stock compensation
Chief executives at San Diego’s publicly traded companies saw their pay packages balloon in 2021,...
San Diego’s Fair Square Medicare snags $15M to help seniors navigate insurance market
Fair Square Medicare, a San Diego digital insurance brokerage that helps seniors navigate complex coverage...
To better understand Parkinson’s disease, this San Diego expert sent her own cells to space
Jeanne Loring likes to say she’s been to space without her feet even leaving the...
San Diego’s Reva Medical raises $45M to develop naturally absorbable stents for lower legs
Reva Medical, which is developing naturally absorbing stents for the lower legs, said last week...
Illumina donation s scientists, students who develop drugs from the sea
San Diego biotech Illumina, a world leader in genomic sequencing technology, is donating equipment and...
San Diego genomics toolkit startup snags $55 million to advance ‘big DNA’
Replay, a genomics toolkit startup with roots in San Diego, said Monday that it’s landed...
No needles: San Diego biotech inks deal to advance nasal spray for countering severe allergic reactions
San Diego’s ARS Pharmaceuticals, which is developing a non-injection nasal spray to combat severe allergic...
Can bacteria in your gut boost cancer therapies? A San Diego startup thinks so
San Diego’s Persephone Biosciences, a startup working on cancer therapies and precision probiotics based on...
How San Diego startups are faring with fundraising in a bear market
Money flowing into San Diego County startups dipped in the second quarter, as venture capitalists...
Latest SD biotech layoff: Heron Therapeutics restructures and cuts 34% of its workforce
Heron Therapeutics, a publicly traded San Diego biotechnology company that makes cancer and pain-management therapies,...
San Diego’s Illumina loses court bid to halt European review of Grail deal
San Diego’s Illumina lost a bid to block European antitrust regulators from scrutinizing its $8...
San Diego biotech working on ‘functional cure’ for type 1 diabetes sold to rival for $320M
San Diego biotech ViaCyte, which is developing cell replacement therapies that could eventually let people...
After rapid growth, San Diego COVID-19 test-maker Cue Health lays off 170 workers
San Diego's Cue Health, which went public last year in an IPO valued at nearly...
Torrey Pines research campus cleared for Salk-inspired remodel
The research campus directly opposite San Diego's famed Torrey Pines Golf Course will be overhauled...
The opioid crisis is the first target for this San Diego startup’s small, wearable device
The road to success has been long and grueling, but it’s not over for Patrik...
What’s hot in life sciences? Bio International Convention looks at what’s next as pandemic recedes
It’s no secret that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the global life sciences industry shined. It...
San Diego’s Veyo, which brought an Uber model to health care transportation, is being acquired by rival MTM
San Diego-based Veyo, which developed an Uber-style model to get Medicaid and Medicare to...
La Jolla-based National Resilience lands $625 million for next-generation biomanufacturing
National Resilience, a San Diego-based advanced manufacturer of complex medicines, said this week that it...
Biotech buyout: San Diego’s Turning Point Therapeutics sells to Bristol Myers Squibb for $4.1 billion
Bristol Myers Squibb has inked a deal to buy San Diego’s Turning Point Therapeutics for...
Second act: Founder of Edico Genome, bought by Illumina, eyes mobile tech to beef up biomedical research
When Pieter van Rooyen sold Edico Genome to Illumina four years ago for $100 million,...
Illumina eyes its next move after jury hands down $334 million patent infringement verdict
Gene sequence giant Illumina is weighing its next moves after a federal jury in Delaware...
San Diego’s Aspen Neuroscience lands $147M for Parkinson’s cell therapy
Aspen Neuroscience, a San Diego biotech that’s developing cell replacement therapy to treat Parkinson’s disease,...
San Diego’s Cardea Bio nets Gates Foundation grant to uncover COVID, malaria and other diseases via breath
San Diego-based Cardea Bio, which is integrating biology with modern electronics, said today it has...
Why are people leaving? San Diego County loses population for first time in a decade
Cody Barbo never thought he would want to leave San Diego.But a couple of months...
San Diego’s Concert Health pulls in $42M to help doctors deliver behavioral as well as physical health care
San Diego’s Concert Health said Wednesday that it has raised $42 million in a second...
Local startup Carlsmed lands $30M to bring personalized spine surgery tech to more patients
Med-tech startup Carlsmed said Tuesday that it picked up an additional $30 million in venture...
San Diego startups see steep drop in investment after record year
Investment in San Diego County startups fell in the first quarter, as venture capitalists and...
San Diego’s Halozyme Therapeutics to buy Antares Pharma for nearly $1B in cash
San Diego’s Halozyme Therapeutics, which provides technology to biopharmaceutical companies to help them develop treatments...
San Diego’s Mosaic reels in $25M from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund for strategic finance tech
San Diego startup Mosaic, which makes “command center” software for corporate finance departments, has raised...
Neurocrine Biosciences inks deal for new, 535,000-square-foot headquarters campus in Carmel Valley
Neurocrine Biosciences has leased 535,000 square feet for a new headquarters campus at Aperture Del...
Castle Biosciences snaps up San Diego’s AltheaDx to push precision medicine into mental health
San Diego startup AltheaDx, which developed a molecular test designed to guide therapy for depression...
I’m eligible for a second COVID-19 booster shot. Should I get it?
So you took the first COVID-19 vaccine that was offered to you and — if...