private network of telepharmacists and software-as-a-service to help hospitals provide cost-efficient pharmacy services.
—San Diego’s Cardium Therapeutics, which trades over the counter under the ticker symbol CRXM, said it has changed its name to Taxus Cardium Pharmaceuticals in a strategic collaboration with China-based Shanxi Taxus Pharmaceuticals. Under the deal, Shanxi Taxus agreed to invest as much as $5 million in Cardium.
—San Diego-based Trovagene (NASDAQ: [[ticker:TROV]]) said it entered into a strategic partnership with the Catholic Health Initiatives Center for Translational Research to determine the effectiveness of Trovagene’s urine-based cell-free DNA diagnostic technology as a tool for measuring the effectiveness of cancer treatments. Trovagene said the ability to non-invasively track how much benefit a patient receives through the course of his treatment could shape how oncology care is delivered. The Catholic Health Initiatives, based in suburban Denver, CO, comprises 87 hospitals in 18 states.
—San Diego’s Daylight Solutions, which specializes in mid-infrared laser technologies, introduced a new product—a commercial laser-based infrared microscope. In a statement, the company said its technology opens new biomedical research possibilities with chemical imaging and analysis on a real-time basis, enabling researchers to observe micron-scale features in a wide-field view.
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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