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San Diego’s Dexcom cuts 500 jobs, moves manufacturing to Arizona
Dexcom is converting its San Diego manufacturing operations to research and development lab space.
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San Diego biotech making melanoma skin patch files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
While DermTech's melanoma test has gained insurance coverage with many groups, including Medicare, it has...
San Diego’s life science sector contributed $56.6B to the regional economy, despite tight financing and layoffs
Hiring in San Diego’s life science sector was down last year as a result of...
San Diego biotech news: Startup gets funding for drug that tackles overeating
Aardvark Therapeutics raised $85 million for its obesity-related drug and to support a potential IPO...
San Diego COVID-19 test maker Cue Health files for bankruptcy following company closure
Cue Health filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy shortly after the abrupt shutdown and layoff of...
San Diego gene-sequencer Illumina spins off blood testing startup Grail – for the second time
San Diego gene-sequencing giant Illumina said Monday that its board approved the spinoff of early...
San Diego’s life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space
San Diego's labs and life science offices hit record vacancy this year.
San Diego COVID-19 test maker Cue Health – once worth $2.3B – lays off entire company and shuts down
Cue Health, the once high-flying San Diego biotech supplying rapid COVID-19 test kits to the...
Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its San Diego office
Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its research and development hub in San Diego that...
San Diego’s Cue Health had the first FDA-approved home COVID-19 test. Now the agency says to throw them out.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told consumers Monday to throw out any at-home COVID-19...
Illumina competitor Pacific Biosciences is closing its San Diego office, laying off workers
Genome sequencing company Pacific Biosciences, a competitor of Illumina, is shutting down its San Diego...
After fall in demand for COVID-19 tests, San Diego’s QuidelOrtho to lay off 500 workers
QuidelOrtho, a local diagnostic company that makes at-home COVID-19 test kits, has a new CEO...
San Diego biotech news: Local maker of mRNA used in COVID-19 vaccine opens new facility
San Diego-based TriLink BioTechnologies went from working with a few local biotechs in 2019 to...
Prebys Foundation awards $7 million in grants to 14 San Diego researchers
SAN DIEGO — Fourteen San Diego researchers will each receive $500,000 grants as part of a new...
This San Diego maker of COVID-19 tests is laying off half its workforce
Cue Health, a San Diego biotech that ascended during the pandemic through mega funding and...
This biotech startup got the biggest venture capital deal in San Diego so far this year
Funding deals for San Diego startups got off to a slow start this year, but...
Hiring is hot for government and health care jobs. These sectors boosted San Diego’s employment gains
Local government hiring fueled San Diego County's job growth last month and nudged the unemployment...
San Diego biotech company making melanoma test patch cuts 56% of its workforce
DermTech, the San Diego-based company that developed a noninvasive skin sticker to detect melanoma, is...
Illumina gets two new executives as the San Diego biotech revamps its C-suite
Illumina is getting a new chief financial officer, the latest major leadership change within the...
Thermo Fisher Scientific closing Carlsbad DNA manufacturing site less than 3 years after opening
Thermo Fisher Scientific is closing its Carlsbad DNA manufacturing site less than three years after...
Bristol Myers Squibb to lay off hundreds of workers following its $4.8B merger with this San Diego biotech
Following its $4.8 billion acquisition of local biotech Mirati Therapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb is laying...
San Diego biotech news: Veteran life science execs raise $150M for cancer drug targeting hard-to-treat tumors
Veteran life science execs lead new company to big fundraising roundThe day that Athena Countouriotis,...
Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and other big pharmas are backing this San Diego biotech with $175M
A San Diego biotech is working on therapies that could tackle life-altering conditions, like autoimmune...
Pfizer inks large deal for lab space at new Torrey View campus in San Diego
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has inked a deal to house its growing oncology business in a...
San Diego’s latest biotech, Contineum Therapeutics, files to go public
Contineum Therapeutics has filed to go public, becoming San Diego’s second biotech IPO of 2024.The...
This downtown San Diego life science building is now 50% leased with latest tenant
One San Diego building is filling up with biotechnology tenants as the push to make...
Startup Boundless Bio files to go public – San Diego’s first life science IPO of 2024
Local life science startup Boundless Bio filed Wednesday to go public — the first San...
San Diego’s Dexcom gets first FDA clearance for an over-the-counter wearable continuous glucose monitor
San Diego device maker Dexcom has received the first FDA clearance for a continuous glucose...
Volcanic explosions, lava lamps and robots entice families at San Diego’s annual science expo
SAN DIEGO — Periodic downpours Saturday were no match for ice cold volcanic eruptions, whimsical robots, and...
San Diego biotech firm QuidelOrtho fires longtime CEO
Local biotechnology firm QuidelOrtho ousted its longtime president and CEO, Douglas Bryant, on Wednesday. The...
DermTech, the San Diego biotech making a skin-cancer detecting patch, cuts 15% of workforce
DermTech, a San Diego biotechnology company that developed a noninvasive melanoma test, is reducing its...
Cue Health lays off more than 30 percent of its global workforce
Cue Health, a San Diego biotechnology company that grew rapidly from producing COVID-19 tests, is...
Illumina lays off 111 workers in San Diego
Illumina, the leader in DNA-sequencing technology, is laying off 111 people at its San Diego...
San Diego sees fewer startup deals in 2023 as investors write larger checks for select companies
Venture capitalists wrote bigger checks to fewer San Diego startups last year, leading to the...
San Diego spine tech company NuVasive lays off 157 workers
Local medical technology firm NuVasive laid off 157 workers in San Diego following the completion...
French pharma giant Sanofi buys San Diego biotech for $2.2B
French drugmaker Sanofi is buying San Diego-based Inhibrx, including a promising drug therapy, for up...
Gilead beat out Amazon for 27 acres in Oceanside. Now it is scrapping its development plans.
Gilead Sciences will not be moving forward with expansion plans to develop 27 acres of...
Illumina and the San Diego Zoo are sequencing koala genomes to investigate disease
Two world-class institutions that call San Diego home have joined forces on an investigation into...
Johnson & Johnson buys San Diego’s Ambrx Biopharma for $2B
Biopharma conglomerate Johnson & Johnson announced Monday it will buy San Diego-based Ambrx Biopharma for...
Illumina shells out $54 million to wiggle out of San Diego office deal
Illumina cut ties with its i3 campus in UTC last year to help trim $100...
San Diego biotech that makes non-hormonal birth control acquired for $100M
After a year of financial challenges and struggling to stay alive, San Diego women's health...
Investor Carl Icahn waging another proxy battle over Illumina’s failed acquisition of Grail
Less than 24 hours after biotech giant Illumina said it would divest early cancer detection...
Illumina will divest Grail after losing battle with FTC. How did the San Diego biotech’s $7B deal unravel?
San Diego biotech giant Illumina said Sunday that it is divesting Grail, the early cancer-detection...
San Diego sleep apnea device maker ResMed cuts workforce, restructures executive team
Local medical device maker ResMed is adjusting its executive leadership assignments and cutting back its...
Illumina says there is outside interest in buying Grail
San Diego’s DNA sequencing giant, Illumina told investors this week that it has received outside...
‘This is a game changer’: Eli Lilly is building coworking labs dedicated to San Diego biotech startups
San Diego’s world-renowned biotech cluster just gained a big investment from pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly...
Startup partnership gives Sharp HealthCare a first look at next-generation medical technology
Sharp HealthCare is partnering with local incubator EvoNexus to help evaluate cutting-edge medical technology coming...
Unsealed lawsuit by investor Carl Icahn accuses board, ex-CEO of causing ‘Illumina to break the law’
Activist investor Carl Icahn is suing Illumina's ex-CEO and members of its board over the...
Forget Silicon Valley – these Japanese life science firms came to San Diego to study startups
For 19 years, Takehito Matsuba worked for two big corporations in Tokyo — Mitsubishi and...
Bristol Myers Squibb buys San Diego cancer therapy company for $4.8B
Mirati Therapeutics, a San Diego biotechnology company developing commercial drugs for cancer treatment, was just...
San Diego’s Crinetics releases solid results for drug that treats deadly rare disease
Acromegaly is a rare disorder caused by a tumor on a person's pituitary gland that...
San Diego has a new CEO in town. Here’s what financial analysts are saying about Illumina’s next leader
Illumina, San Diego’s DNA-sequencing giant, has a new boss.Illumina’s board tapped Jacob Thaysen, a seasoned...
A broad genetic test saved one newborn’s life. Research suggests it could help millions of others
CINCINNATI — Brynn Schulte nearly died twice when she was a baby, at one point needing emergency...
Illumina lays off 151 San Diego workers
Illumina, a leading biotechnology company in DNA-sequencing, laid off 151 workers in San Diego as...
San Diego’s Illumina discloses new SEC investigation into its $7.1B acquisition of Grail
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the $7.1 billion acquisition of Grail, a...
Thermo Fisher cuts 106 workers in fifth round of San Diego layoffs this year
Thermo Fisher Scientific is laying off 106 San Diego employees in the fifth round of...
12-year-old amputee surfs again with ‘water leg’ from this San Diego company
In June, Jonah Villamil hopped on a surfboard with two legs for the first time...
San Diego biotech Heron Therapeutics cuts 25% of workers, second corporate restructuring in a year
Heron Therapeutics, a San Diego biotechnology company that makes cancer and pain-management therapies, is cutting...
San Diego’s Travere Therapeutics to sell a piece of its liver disorder drug portfolio for $445M
San Diego’s Travere Therapeutics has inked a $445 million deal to sell part of its...
San Diego’s Illumina hit with hefty $476 million fine by European regulators over Grail merger
Illumina said it would appeal a $476 million fine levied Wednesday by the European Union...
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 support, frustration
Illumina Chief Executive Francis deSouza received 71 percent shareholder support 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 support 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...