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Some 230 graduate students will present their research in a poster session and UCSD faculty from all 6 engineering departments are set to give short talks at this annual networking event and engineering research exposition. The event is intended to draw technologists, potential investors, and companies looking to recruit engineers. Online registration is here.

The San Diego Biotechnology Network is holding its February networking event in the tasting room of San Diego’s Green Flash micro-brewery. SDBN’s affiliated marketing firm, Comprendia, will be on hand to provide free social media and marketing consulting for life sciences companies. The event is free, with food and beverages available for purchase. More information … Continue reading “SDBN February Networking Event”

This is the first event in the Clearity Foundation’s “Personalized Medicine Symposium Series,” which has been planned as a venue for productive discussion of the challenges and opportunities in bringing the promise of personalized medicine to reality. The inaugural panel will explore some of the commercial issues in bringing personalized medicine to patients. More information … Continue reading “Clearity Foundation Series: How Personalized Medicine Is Failing Patients”

Fifty years after the rights of Henrietta Lacks were ignored, federal law and ethical guidelines now govern the use of human subjects in biomedical research. How well do such safeguards work in an era of dwindling privacy and widening socioeconomic gaps? More information and online registration is here.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks asks readers to consider if a woman who has been dead for 60 years remains in some sense “alive” because descendants of her cells continue to exist and propagate. This claim captures the complex ethical and legal issues at the heart of the book: What does it mean to … Continue reading “How Immortal Is Henrietta Lacks, Really?”

New health delivery structures and payment methodologies have been introduced as a result of the federal Affordable Care Act of 2010. Healthcare payers and providers are now looking for partners in their efforts to reduce costs. This half-day seminar offers an in-depth look at recent changes and an interactive workshop on how vendors of drugs, … Continue reading “Identifying Opportunities in a Changing Healthcare Landscape”

Biocom has helped to arrange a keynote presentation by David Cassak, a managing director who overseas content concerning medical devices at Elsevier Business Intelligence. Please note this event will be held in Irvine. Online registration is here.

California State University Northridge is bringing the 27th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference to San Diego. This is the world’s largest technology event dedicated to people with disabilities. CSUN plans to hold two days of pre-conference events and 350 general sessions led by internationally-recognized experts, all focused on promoting accessibility through technology … Continue reading “International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference”

The San Diego chapter of the Tech Coast Angels has organized this all-day seminar to provide an overview of the angel investing process, including finding, evaluating, and structuring deals. It will also go into depth on how to develop angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success. This highly interactive program has been revised and updated for … Continue reading “Tech Coast Angels: The Power of Angel Investing”

Biocom offers this one-day course to provide a concise overview of the key concepts of modern biology and an introduction to the technology and terminology used in the biotech and medical device industries. Classes are specifically geared toward the non-science professional who needs to better understand industry terminology, science, techniques and issues. More information and … Continue reading “BioBriefing: Drug Development Primer for the Non-Scientist”

Biocom offers this one-day course to provide a concise overview of the key concepts of modern biology and an introduction to the technology and terminology used in the biotech and medical device industries. Classes are specifically geared toward the non-science professional who needs to better understand industry terminology, science, techniques and issues. More information and … Continue reading “BioBriefing: Biotech Primer for the Non-Scientist”

CommNexus is hosting Elektrobit research manager Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen to discuss how wireless designers and developers can approach wireless network performance limits by intelligently using radio propagation. While the biggest gains in terms of system performance can be achieved at the network level, this presentation includes methodologies for lab testing that simulates real world performance.

Malama Composites is facing challenges that many companies in the cleantech sector face—how to compete against rival, low-cost commodity products. Is it enough if there’s an undercurrent of encouragement to “go green?” Malama’s rigid polyurethane foam is made from soy polyols and other renewable resources. It is sustainable, non-toxic and has almost limitless applications in … Continue reading “San Diego MIT Enterprise Forum: Malama Composites”

Patients have a hard time understanding the information given by their doctor. Misinformation and pseudoscience promulgated on the web can further aggregate this problem, and because many websites are easier to understand, they can have an outsized impact on healthcare decisions. How can scientists help a diverse public understand science well enough to make informed … Continue reading “Health Care Disparities & The Palliative Power of Understanding Science”

How can scientists avoid the risk of unintentionally misrepresenting scientific data in this era of web collaboration? How can scientists ensure that data are curated accurately, their integrity maintained, and that they are reliably linked to researchers, organizations and publications to safeguard both attribution and reproducibility? In this presentation, Katherine A. Kantardjieff, founding Dean of … Continue reading “Conducting Science in the Cloud and Other Ethical Challenges”

This two-day conference is the flagship event for San Diego’s Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, with executive-led forums on healthcare, technology, and communications. The agenda includes presentations and panel discussions by innovators, health care strategists, thought leaders, policy experts and others. More information and online registration is here.

Connect has arranged a talk by Matthias von Herrath of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology about his research into Type 1 diabetes, and his pursuit of a cure. Von Herrath has been recruited to lead a new translational diabetes center to be opened this summer in Seattle by Novo Nordisk. He plans … Continue reading “Conquering Diabetes”

The Association for Corporate Growth has invited California Republican Assemblyman—and San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher and Active Network CEO Dave Alberga to talk about “Building the World’s Most Innovative City.” San Diego Business Journal Editor-in-Chief Reo Carr will serve as the moderator. More information and online registration is here.

The rise of personal sensing and medical tracking technologies are triggering changes throughout the healthcare industry. Whole genome sequencing and personalized medicine are generating new approaches to both preventive medicine and treatment. Combine all these advances, and you have unprecedented capabilities for “quantified health.” Three leaders of this emerging field are holding forth at UC … Continue reading “The ‘Quantified Self’ and the Future of Personal Health”