Reports + Research
Aristea and Ionis CEOs Make Predictions for Biotech in 2020
Life Science Leader talks with Drs. Stanley Crooke and James Mackay about what the next decade will bring for the biotech and pharma industry. Dr. Mackay is focused on partnering and cross collaboration within innovation ecosystems, like among San Diego’s leading biotech and tech companies, “will create innovation in the way drugs are ultimately developed and delivered to patients.” Dr. Crooke adds that the industry is heading into its most productive days with the ability to outsource—pharma outsourcing innovation to biotech, and biotechs outsourcing to CROs, CMOs, and subject matter expert consultants.
UC San Diego Researchers Create Tool to Investigate Microbiome Contributions
Microbiomes are everywhere, but their ubiquity makes them difficult to isolate and study. In a publication in Nature Methods, a team led by UC San Diego researchers describes a neural network-based approach to sift through datasets of genetic and metabolic information and help match microbes to resulting metabolites. The tool could be used in applications from clinical trials to agriculture and environmental engineering.
Read + Listen
Podcast of the Year: Remembering Bradley Fikes
Before the Thanksgiving Holiday, the San Diego biotech community lost a great champion. Bradley Fikes, the Union-Tribune’s biotech writer, was dedicated to understanding and explaining our industry’s breakthroughs to the public (an important service). In this podcast, posted a month ago, Bradley discusses fedratinib and the 15-year journey to FDA approval. It’s good to hear his voice as he details all sides of the story from patient journey to drug development hurdles. He was passionate about what the biotech industry can do—save lives—and he was dedicated to telling the world about it. Bradley, you will be greatly missed.
It’s Happening Here
January 11-15:
The largest ag-genomics meeting in the world, Plant and Animal Genome XXVIII (PAGXXVIII), will take place at Town and Country San Diego, January 11-15.
January 20-25:
The 19th Annual PepTalk at The Protein Science Week will take place January 20-25 in downtown San Diego.
Tags: Biotech, Biotech Briefing, Life Sciences, Medical Research
