InTouch founder Yulun Wang joins Cottage board
Yulun Wang, the head of research and development at Teladoc Health and a pioneer in the field of remote and robotic surgery, has joined the volunteer Board of Directors for Cottage Health. Wang has deep roots in the area, having earned his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He then spent Read More →
Tri-Counties will ask state to form separate region for shutdown rules
In a show of rising frustration over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Southern California-wide “stay-at-home” order, the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo are jointly petitioning the state to loosen the rules for some 1.5 million residents. In a draft statement reviewed by the Business Times, the three counties said they will shortly be Read More →
MannKind makes $12.5M pharma buy
MannKind Corp., a biotech company based in Westlake Village, announced Dec. 7 that it has acquired a QrumPharma, a privately held biotech company, in a $12.5 million deal. MannKind has purchased all outstanding capital stock of QrumPharma for $3.5 million in cash and just over 3 million shares of MannKind common stock. At MannKind’s stock Read More →
UV light startup helps restaurants go antiviral
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, owners of all sorts of businesses are looking at an option for disinfecting surfaces that has long been dismissed as too expensive to use outside of hospitals: UV-C technology.
CSUCI offers first nursing master’s in the region
MS in nursing is added to CSU Channel Islands’ graduate degree programs, the region’s lone program of its kind.
New state order could close restaurants, other businesses if ICUs fill up
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a revised stay-at-home order on Dec. 3 that is tied to each region of the state’s intensive care capacity. In areas where the ICU capacity falls below 15%, a stay-at-home order will be implemented for three weeks. Under this new order, the state is broken into five regions, with Ventura, Read More →
Amgen joins new cooperative trials for COVID treatment
With COVID-19 continuing to surge across the globe, a coalition of pharmaceutical companies including Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has announced a joint trial for new coronavirus treatments. Amgen, along with Takeda and UCB, are now collaborating to study methods of treatment for patients who are hospitalized due to COVID-19, the three companies announced. The trial enrolled Read More →
