system to develop a prototype that could be used to help physical therapy patients comply with their prescribed strength and conditioning programs. The nonprofit medical research organization said it also plans to collaborate with the Naval Medical Center of San Diego in using the prototype to help wounded warriors and other patients.
—Skylight Healthcare Systems, a San Diego-based company developing interactive patient systems to support patient care before, during, and after a hospital stay, said they closed on $5 million in Series D funding from Duchossois Capital Partners, an affiliate of the Elmhurst, IL-based Duchossois Group. Skylight said it has reached profitability, and plans to use the funding to accelerate its growth and development.
—OncoSec Medical, a San Diego company developing electroporation technology to increase the concentration of an anti-cancer drug in solid tumor cancers, said the University of Washington (UW) will join UC San Francisco, the John Wayne Cancer Institute, and Lakeland Cancer Center as the fourth site for its mid-stage metastatic melanoma clinical trial. I previewed the technology earlier this year.
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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