advanced treatments for ailments as diverse as foot ulcers, epilepsy and near vision loss,” Dovey added.
In addition to ReVision Optics, Domain and Rusnano also have invested in:
—CoDa Therapeutics, a specialized pharmaceutical based in San Diego, is developing new therapeutics for wound care, including the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers.
—Lithera, an aesthetic medicine and ophthalmology company also based in San Diego, has been developing an injectable formulation of salmeterol xinafoate that has been optimized to reduce abdominal fat in normal, healthy people who are under 45.
—Marinus Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company in Branford, CT, is developing neurosteroids for central nervous system disorders. The company’s lead drug candidate is a first-in-class therapy for epilepsy.
—Regado Biosciences, a specialized pharmaceutical in Basking Ridge, NJ, has been developing an anticoagulant for use in cardiovascular surgeries that could be used by surgeons to adjust bleeding risks.
At the same time, Rusnano and Domain plan to begin construction this year on another joint venture—an $85 million facility in Kaluga, about 93 miles southwest of Moscow, to manufacture medical devices and pharmaceutical products for the Russian market. The project under development by NovaMedica, a Russian business co-owned by
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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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