Health | Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose monitor. Here’s how much it costs By Natallie Rocha September 3, 2024 at 10:28 a.m. The San Diego company launched the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitor that doesn't require a...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY This San Diego medtech company is cutting 117 jobs By Natallie Rocha August 7, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. Local subsidiary of medtech giant Becton Dickinson & Co. is cutting jobs at two San...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Why is this biotech company selling its San Diego manufacturing facility? By Natallie Rocha August 1, 2024 at 5:08 p.m. It’s part of QuidelOrtho's cost-saving strategy, which included a 7 percent workforce reduction this year.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | San Diego startups bring in more than $1B in venture capital funding By Natallie Rocha July 25, 2024 at 2:15 p.m. The amount of money raised by local companies is up 84.5% from the same period...
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis shutting down a San Diego site By Natallie Rocha July 11, 2024 at 10:08 a.m. Novartis is closing a San Diego site. The layoffs will be complete by mid-2025.
San Diego biotech news: Eli Lilly inks deal that could lead to $1B acquisition of this local company By Natallie Rocha July 10, 2024 at 3:37 p.m. San Diego's Radionetics inked deal with Eli Lilly to advance its oncology pipeline
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Here’s why Eli Lilly, Pfizer and J&J are in San Diego looking for the next big drug By Natallie Rocha July 5, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. Will local startups give big pharma its next blockbuster drug? Eli Lilly and Pfizer are...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | San Diego’s Dexcom cuts 500 jobs, moves manufacturing to Arizona By Natallie Rocha June 26, 2024 at 4:50 p.m. Dexcom is converting its San Diego manufacturing operations to research and development lab space.
Business | San Diego biotech making melanoma skin patch files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy By Natallie Rocha June 20, 2024 at 6:31 a.m. 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 By Natallie Rocha June 17, 2024 at 2:46 p.m. Hiring in San Diego’s life science sector was down last year as a result of...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Startup gets funding for drug that tackles overeating By Natallie Rocha June 14, 2024 at 6:51 p.m. Aardvark Therapeutics raised $85 million for its obesity-related drug and to support a potential IPO...
Business | San Diego COVID-19 test maker Cue Health files for bankruptcy following company closure By Natallie Rocha June 16, 2024 at 11:17 a.m. Cue Health filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy shortly after the abrupt shutdown and layoff of...
Business | San Diego gene-sequencer Illumina spins off blood testing startup Grail – for the second time By Natallie Rocha June 5, 2024 at 1:09 a.m. San Diego gene-sequencing giant Illumina said Monday that its board approved the spinoff of early...
Business | San Diego’s life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space By Natallie Rocha June 16, 2024 at 11:11 a.m. San Diego's labs and life science offices hit record vacancy this year.
Business | San Diego COVID-19 test maker Cue Health – once worth $2.3B – lays off entire company and shuts down By Natallie Rocha May 23, 2024 at 6:35 p.m. Cue Health, the once high-flying San Diego biotech supplying rapid COVID-19 test kits to the...
Business | Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its San Diego office By Natallie Rocha June 10, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its research and development hub in San Diego that...
Business | San Diego’s Cue Health had the first FDA-approved home COVID-19 test. Now the agency says to throw them out. By Natallie Rocha May 17, 2024 at 1:35 a.m. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told consumers Monday to throw out any at-home COVID-19...
Business | Illumina competitor Pacific Biosciences is closing its San Diego office, laying off workers By Natallie Rocha May 11, 2024 at 12:09 a.m. Genome sequencing company Pacific Biosciences, a competitor of Illumina, is shutting down its San Diego...
Business | After fall in demand for COVID-19 tests, San Diego’s QuidelOrtho to lay off 500 workers By Natallie Rocha May 10, 2024 at 12:58 a.m. QuidelOrtho, a local diagnostic company that makes at-home COVID-19 test kits, has a new CEO...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Local maker of mRNA used in COVID-19 vaccine opens new facility By Natallie Rocha May 8, 2024 at 10:27 p.m. San Diego-based TriLink BioTechnologies went from working with a few local biotechs in 2019 to...
News | Prebys Foundation awards $7 million in grants to 14 San Diego researchers By Paul Sisson May 6, 2024 at 11:51 p.m. SAN DIEGO — Fourteen San Diego researchers will each receive $500,000 grants as part of a new...
Business | This San Diego maker of COVID-19 tests is laying off half its workforce By Natallie Rocha May 3, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. Cue Health, a San Diego biotech that ascended during the pandemic through mega funding and...
Business | This biotech startup got the biggest venture capital deal in San Diego so far this year By Natallie Rocha April 29, 2024 at 12:13 a.m. Funding deals for San Diego startups got off to a slow start this year, but...
Business | Hiring is hot for government and health care jobs. These sectors boosted San Diego’s employment gains By Natallie Rocha April 22, 2024 at 6:46 p.m. Local government hiring fueled San Diego County's job growth last month and nudged the unemployment...
Business | San Diego biotech company making melanoma test patch cuts 56% of its workforce By Natallie Rocha April 26, 2024 at 1:22 a.m. DermTech, the San Diego-based company that developed a noninvasive skin sticker to detect melanoma, is...
Business | Illumina gets two new executives as the San Diego biotech revamps its C-suite By Natallie Rocha April 10, 2024 at 11:26 p.m. Illumina is getting a new chief financial officer, the latest major leadership change within the...
Business | Thermo Fisher Scientific closing Carlsbad DNA manufacturing site less than 3 years after opening By Natallie Rocha April 11, 2024 at 9:47 p.m. Thermo Fisher Scientific is closing its Carlsbad DNA manufacturing site less than three years after...
Business | Bristol Myers Squibb to lay off hundreds of workers following its $4.8B merger with this San Diego biotech By Natallie Rocha April 3, 2024 at 11:07 p.m. Following its $4.8 billion acquisition of local biotech Mirati Therapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb is laying...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Veteran life science execs raise $150M for cancer drug targeting hard-to-treat tumors By Natallie Rocha March 30, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Veteran life science execs lead new company to big fundraising roundThe day that Athena Countouriotis,...
Business | Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and other big pharmas are backing this San Diego biotech with $175M By Natallie Rocha March 20, 2024 at 11:05 p.m. A San Diego biotech is working on therapies that could tackle life-altering conditions, like autoimmune...
Business | Pfizer inks large deal for lab space at new Torrey View campus in San Diego By Jennifer Van Grove March 20, 2024 at 8:59 p.m. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has inked a deal to house its growing oncology business in a...
Business | San Diego’s latest biotech, Contineum Therapeutics, files to go public By Natallie Rocha March 18, 2024 at 10:23 p.m. Contineum Therapeutics has filed to go public, becoming San Diego’s second biotech IPO of 2024.The...
Business | This downtown San Diego life science building is now 50% leased with latest tenant By Natallie Rocha March 13, 2024 at 8:57 p.m. One San Diego building is filling up with biotechnology tenants as the push to make...
Business | Startup Boundless Bio files to go public – San Diego’s first life science IPO of 2024 By Natallie Rocha March 7, 2024 at 10:31 p.m. Local life science startup Boundless Bio filed Wednesday to go public — the first San...
Business | San Diego’s Dexcom gets first FDA clearance for an over-the-counter wearable continuous glucose monitor By Natallie Rocha March 6, 2024 at 8:59 p.m. San Diego device maker Dexcom has received the first FDA clearance for a continuous glucose...
Local News | Volcanic explosions, lava lamps and robots entice families at San Diego’s annual science expo By Lori Weisberg March 3, 2024 at 1:49 a.m. SAN DIEGO — Periodic downpours Saturday were no match for ice cold volcanic eruptions, whimsical robots, and...
Business | San Diego biotech firm QuidelOrtho fires longtime CEO By Natallie Rocha February 22, 2024 at 1:45 a.m. Local biotechnology firm QuidelOrtho ousted its longtime president and CEO, Douglas Bryant, on Wednesday. The...
Business | DermTech, the San Diego biotech making a skin-cancer detecting patch, cuts 15% of workforce By Natallie Rocha February 6, 2024 at 10:43 p.m. DermTech, a San Diego biotechnology company that developed a noninvasive melanoma test, is reducing its...
Business | Cue Health lays off more than 30 percent of its global workforce By Natallie Rocha February 3, 2024 at 12:43 a.m. Cue Health, a San Diego biotechnology company that grew rapidly from producing COVID-19 tests, is...
Business | Illumina lays off 111 workers in San Diego By Natallie Rocha February 1, 2024 at 11:37 p.m. Illumina, the leader in DNA-sequencing technology, is laying off 111 people at its San Diego...
Business | San Diego sees fewer startup deals in 2023 as investors write larger checks for select companies By Natallie Rocha February 1, 2024 at 9:20 p.m. Venture capitalists wrote bigger checks to fewer San Diego startups last year, leading to the...
Business | San Diego spine tech company NuVasive lays off 157 workers By Natallie Rocha January 26, 2024 at 11:04 p.m. Local medical technology firm NuVasive laid off 157 workers in San Diego following the completion...
Business | French pharma giant Sanofi buys San Diego biotech for $2.2B By Natallie Rocha January 24, 2024 at 1:30 a.m. French drugmaker Sanofi is buying San Diego-based Inhibrx, including a promising drug therapy, for up...
Business | Gilead beat out Amazon for 27 acres in Oceanside. Now it is scrapping its development plans. By Natallie Rocha January 18, 2024 at 12:50 a.m. Gilead Sciences will not be moving forward with expansion plans to develop 27 acres of...
Business | Illumina and the San Diego Zoo are sequencing koala genomes to investigate disease By Natallie Rocha January 17, 2024 at 3:42 a.m. Two world-class institutions that call San Diego home have joined forces on an investigation into...
Business | Johnson & Johnson buys San Diego’s Ambrx Biopharma for $2B By Natallie Rocha January 9, 2024 at 12:37 a.m. Biopharma conglomerate Johnson & Johnson announced Monday it will buy San Diego-based Ambrx Biopharma for...
Business | Illumina shells out $54 million to wiggle out of San Diego office deal By Natallie Rocha January 3, 2024 at 4:09 a.m. Illumina cut ties with its i3 campus in UTC last year to help trim $100...
Business | San Diego biotech that makes non-hormonal birth control acquired for $100M By Natallie Rocha December 22, 2023 at 6:40 p.m. After a year of financial challenges and struggling to stay alive, San Diego women's health...
Business | Investor Carl Icahn waging another proxy battle over Illumina’s failed acquisition of Grail By Natallie Rocha December 21, 2023 at 12:46 a.m. Less than 24 hours after biotech giant Illumina said it would divest early cancer detection...
Business | Illumina will divest Grail after losing battle with FTC. How did the San Diego biotech’s $7B deal unravel? By Natallie Rocha December 18, 2023 at 8:30 p.m. San Diego biotech giant Illumina said Sunday that it is divesting Grail, the early cancer-detection...
Business | San Diego sleep apnea device maker ResMed cuts workforce, restructures executive team By Natallie Rocha December 5, 2023 at 1:56 a.m. Local medical device maker ResMed is adjusting its executive leadership assignments and cutting back its...
Business | Illumina says there is outside interest in buying Grail By Natallie Rocha December 2, 2023 at 12:20 a.m. San Diego’s DNA sequencing giant, Illumina told investors this week that it has received outside...
Business | ‘This is a game changer’: Eli Lilly is building coworking labs dedicated to San Diego biotech startups By Natallie Rocha November 29, 2023 at 6:54 p.m. San Diego’s world-renowned biotech cluster just gained a big investment from pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly...
Business | Startup partnership gives Sharp HealthCare a first look at next-generation medical technology By Natallie Rocha October 26, 2023 at 12:16 a.m. Sharp HealthCare is partnering with local incubator EvoNexus to help evaluate cutting-edge medical technology coming...
Business | Unsealed lawsuit by investor Carl Icahn accuses board, ex-CEO of causing ‘Illumina to break the law’ By Natallie Rocha October 24, 2023 at 2:29 a.m. Activist investor Carl Icahn is suing Illumina's ex-CEO and members of its board over the...
Business | Forget Silicon Valley – these Japanese life science firms came to San Diego to study startups By Natallie Rocha October 17, 2023 at 4:38 p.m. For 19 years, Takehito Matsuba worked for two big corporations in Tokyo — Mitsubishi and...
Business | Bristol Myers Squibb buys San Diego cancer therapy company for $4.8B By Natallie Rocha October 10, 2023 at 8:33 p.m. Mirati Therapeutics, a San Diego biotechnology company developing commercial drugs for cancer treatment, was just...
News | San Diego’s Crinetics releases solid results for drug that treats deadly rare disease By Paul Sisson September 11, 2023 at 9:18 p.m. Acromegaly is a rare disorder caused by a tumor on a person's pituitary gland that...
Business | San Diego has a new CEO in town. Here’s what financial analysts are saying about Illumina’s next leader By Natallie Rocha September 7, 2023 at 4:35 a.m. Illumina, San Diego’s DNA-sequencing giant, has a new boss.Illumina’s board tapped Jacob Thaysen, a seasoned...
Things to do | A broad genetic test saved one newborn’s life. Research suggests it could help millions of others By Laura Ungar September 4, 2023 at 11:21 p.m. CINCINNATI — Brynn Schulte nearly died twice when she was a baby, at one point needing emergency...
Business | Illumina lays off 151 San Diego workers By Natallie Rocha August 18, 2023 at 1:20 a.m. Illumina, a leading biotechnology company in DNA-sequencing, laid off 151 workers in San Diego as...
Business | San Diego’s Illumina discloses new SEC investigation into its $7.1B acquisition of Grail By Natallie Rocha August 14, 2023 at 10:02 p.m. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the $7.1 billion acquisition of Grail, a...
Business | Thermo Fisher cuts 106 workers in fifth round of San Diego layoffs this year By Natallie Rocha August 4, 2023 at 1:05 a.m. Thermo Fisher Scientific is laying off 106 San Diego employees in the fifth round of...
Business | 12-year-old amputee surfs again with ‘water leg’ from this San Diego company By Natallie Rocha August 3, 2023 at 5:55 p.m. In June, Jonah Villamil hopped on a surfboard with two legs for the first time...
Business | San Diego biotech Heron Therapeutics cuts 25% of workers, second corporate restructuring in a year By Natallie Rocha July 26, 2023 at 12:47 a.m. Heron Therapeutics, a San Diego biotechnology company that makes cancer and pain-management therapies, is cutting...
Business | San Diego’s Travere Therapeutics to sell a piece of its liver disorder drug portfolio for $445M By Mike Freeman July 19, 2023 at 5:28 p.m. San Diego’s Travere Therapeutics has inked a $445 million deal to sell part of its...
Business | San Diego’s Illumina hit with hefty $476 million fine by European regulators over Grail merger By Mike Freeman July 12, 2023 at 10:05 p.m. Illumina said it would appeal a $476 million fine levied Wednesday by the European Union...
Local News | Pharmaceutical company plans 14-acre expansion in Oceanside corporate center By Phil Diehl July 10, 2023 at 12:01 p.m. OCEANSIDE — Gilead Sciences Inc. plans to build a new manufacturing center on 14 acres alongside its...
Business | San Diego’s DermTech trims staff to conserve cash as it pushes scalpel-free diagnostic test for melanoma By Mike Freeman July 5, 2023 at 11:17 p.m. San Diego’s DermTech has cut about 40 jobs and shelved certain research programs to focus...
Business | San Diego startups show off a deep-sea camera, wireless streaming via touch By Mike Freeman April 23, 2024 at 12:19 a.m. DeepWater Exploration rolled out a compact, rugged camera last year capable of delivering non-distorted imagery...
Business | San Diego company’s new wearable device will help diabetics eat right, lose weight By Mike Freeman July 1, 2023 at 2:23 a.m. San Diego’s Dexcom, a maker of continuous glucose monitors, laid out plans for a new...
Business | After boom years, San Diego startups now having tougher time finding money to grow By Mike Freeman June 22, 2023 at 7:29 p.m. For Bijan Moallemi and other startup entrepreneurs, the rules of the game for raising venture...
Business | Illumina CEO resigns following push by activist investor Carl Icahn to remove him By Mike Freeman June 13, 2023 at 1:12 p.m. Illumina CEO Francis deSouza has resigned, just weeks after the DNA sequencing company endured a...
News | UC San Diego Health rebuts claim that patient safety is ‘at risk’ at Moores Cancer Center By Paul Sisson June 9, 2023 at 4:31 a.m. UC San Diego Health leaders are pushing back against a recent article in an influential...
Business | Life’s work: San Diego startup grew from desire to save a father but now it could help many more By Mike Freeman June 8, 2023 at 11:03 p.m. Sometimes, hard science is personal.Sharif Tabebordbar's father suffers from facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease...
Business | Moderna, Pfizer sued over technology developed by San Diego researchers that made COVID-19 vaccine possible By Natallie Rocha June 9, 2023 at 1:58 p.m. Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech were named in lawsuits Tuesday that accuse them of stealing a...
Business | Software snafu leads to 400 Grail patients getting bogus letters saying they might have cancer By Mike Freeman June 3, 2023 at 12:47 a.m. Cancer screening outfit Grail said Friday that a software glitch at a third-party telemedicine vendor...
Business | Shareholder vote totals in Illumina’s proxy fight with activist Carl Icahn show support, frustration By Mike Freeman June 2, 2023 at 4:36 p.m. Illumina Chief Executive Francis deSouza received 71 percent shareholder support to remain on the DNA...
Business | Construction starts on Pacific Center, a $650M life science campus in Sorrento Mesa By Jennifer Van Grove June 1, 2023 at 5:48 p.m. Nearly 18 months after spending more than a half-billion dollars to buy a substantial plot...
Business | San Diego’s Illumina gets split decision in proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn By Mike Freeman May 26, 2023 at 12:20 a.m. San Diego’s Illumina dodged the worst in its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn...
Business | Rady Children’s lands $2.5 million donation to advance neuro-oncology research By Mike Freeman May 25, 2023 at 12:45 a.m. Rady Children’s Hospital has received a $2.5 million gift to support neuro-oncology research, with an...
Business | Illumina proxy fight with activist Carl Icahn nears conclusion as shareholder advisers weigh in By Mike Freeman May 23, 2023 at 12:57 a.m. Illumina’s battle against activist investor Carl Icahn comes to a head this week — with...
Business | San Diego biotech pulls in $100M for precision therapy for hard-to-treat tumors By Mike Freeman May 16, 2023 at 10:58 p.m. San Diego’s Boundless Bio, which is developing precision therapies to block certain genes from morphing...
Business | San Diego startup helps cancer patients keep their hair during treatment By Mike Freeman May 17, 2023 at 1:13 a.m. For Kate Dilligan, helping chemotherapy patients keep their hair is not about beauty. It’s about...
Business | Mega life science development on University City hilltop nears approval By Jennifer Van Grove May 13, 2023 at 1:59 a.m. Life science real estate developer BioMed Realty is close to securing the permits necessary to...
Business | San Diego’s Cue Health – testmaker that sold COVID-19 kits to NBA, Google – lays off 30% of workforce By Natallie Rocha May 3, 2023 at 9:33 p.m. San Diego’s Cue Health, which saw huge demand for its 20-minute COVID-19 tests from the...
Business | Thermo Fisher closing 3 San Diego facilities, laying off 218 workers By Natallie Rocha April 28, 2023 at 1:35 a.m. Thermo Fisher Scientific is shutting down three San Diego facilities and laying off 218 workers...
Business | Merck paying $10.8B for San Diego biotech that focuses on Crohn’s disease, colitis By Mike Freeman April 18, 2023 at 12:28 a.m. Prometheus Biosciences, which has been on a roll since last fall’s positive results in a...
Business | FTC orders San Diego’s Illumina to unwind $7.1B Grail merger By Mike Freeman April 3, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. U.S. antitrust regulators have ordered San Diego’s Illumina to unwind its $7 billion acquisition of...
Business | Carl Icahn turns up heat on Illumina, claims board got extra insurance ahead of Grail merger By Mike Freeman March 25, 2023 at 12:21 a.m. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn fired another salvo of criticism at San Diego’s Illumina on Friday,...
Business | San Diego women’s health company, Evofem, cuts CEO salary 40% and other staff pay by 20% By Natallie Rocha March 22, 2023 at 2:12 a.m. Evofem Biosciences, a San Diego-based contraceptive maker, Tuesday announced a cost-cutting plan that includes layoffs...
Business | Thermo Fisher cuts 154 workers in another round of San Diego layoffs By Natallie Rocha March 9, 2023 at 10:17 p.m. Thermo Fisher Scientific is laying off 154 people in San Diego, citing a downturn in...
Business | Qualcomm lays off more workers in San Diego amid smartphone sales slump By Mike Freeman March 6, 2023 at 9:11 p.m. Qualcomm shaved 79 jobs from its San Diego headquarters last month as the mobile chip...
Business | SDSU selects developer to build first office, lab buildings at Mission Valley campus By Jennifer Van Grove March 7, 2023 at 2:27 a.m. San Diego State University has picked Los Angeles-based builder LPC West to erect the first...
Local News | Ionis Pharmaceuticals plans large expansion in Carlsbad By Phil Diehl March 5, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Ionis Pharmaceuticals, which recently announced it will open a sprawling research-and-development center in Oceanside, also...
Business | San Diego women’s health company that makes non-hormonal birth control offers itself for sale By Natallie Rocha February 24, 2023 at 6:07 a.m. San Diego biopharmaceutical company Evofem Biosciences is exploring a merger or acquisition to raise funds...
Business | Pfizer shedding more than 100 jobs at its San Diego research and development center By Mike Freeman February 22, 2023 at 2:32 p.m. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is cutting 111 jobs from its San Diego research and development organization...
Business | Genentech expands in Oceanside with $450M biotech manufacturing facility and 150 jobs By Natallie Rocha February 22, 2023 at 12:40 a.m. Biotechnology company Genentech is expanding its local manufacturing capabilities with a $450 million investment in...
Business | San Diego startup Faro Health snags $20M for software to improve clinical drug trials By Mike Freeman February 17, 2023 at 11:49 p.m. San Diego’s Faro Health, a cloud-computing startup that provides software for planning and running complex...
Business | San Diego drug developer Sorrento Therapeutics files for bankruptcy amid legal battles By Mike Freeman February 15, 2023 at 2:26 p.m. San Diego’s Sorrento Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week after a setback...