the board meetings of PatientSafe Solutions. Psilos was a lead investor in the startup, which provides handheld devices that help reduce hospital medication errors. Suennen said her firm invests in health IT, healthcare services, and medical technologies.
—San Diego-based MabVax Therapeutics got a $1.1-million follow-on grant from the Small Business Technology Transfer Program of the National Cancer Institute. The privately held company is developing a human monoclonal antibody therapy to target a specific antigen expressed by colon, pancreatic, and breast cancer cells.
—San Diego-based Orphagen Pharmaceuticals said it got a two-year, $520,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute through its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program to develop a new class of drugs for treating adrenocortical and prostate cancer.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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