process known as the apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter, Lumena’s leading drug candidates could potentially slow the progression of certain liver diseases, improve liver function, and enhance patients’ quality of life, the company says.
—The annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is being held this week in San Diego. The conference, which began Saturday, continues through Wednesday at the San Diego Convention Center. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health, which the AACR will be commemorating. Among other things, leaders in the field of tobacco research will address the media on current tobacco control efforts this morning.
—The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the San Diego-based Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) said they formed a partnership to highlight the potential of wireless devices, apps, and social networks in improving patient care. As a result, the 2014 BIO International Convention, to be held this June at the San Diego Convention Center, will include a Digital Health Zone and Forum to showcase emerging technologies and companies focused on digital health. In a statement, Rob McCray of the WLSA, says, “As all areas of healthcare continue to become more integrated, these partnerships will create new opportunities for collaboration among next-generation digital health and biotechnology companies.”
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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