Sikich LLP is a business and technology consultancy who’s close to 1,500 team members provide advisory, consulting, and technology services to clients in life sciences, manufacturing, professional services, and other industries. The company’s life sciences practice spans the industry and supports more than 200 life sciences clients, including biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies, CROs, and lab […]
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Spotlight: 17 Start-up Companies from Big4Bio Regions are Showcased at BIO 2022
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This is part 2 of Big4Bio’s coverage of the 44 early and seed stage companies that presented at this year’s Start-up Stadium held during the BIO 2022 conference in San Diego. By Cassie Arnold Part 1 of Big4Bio’s coverage of the Start-up Stadium at BIO 2022 covered the criteria and process for all of the […]
Spotlight: Start-up Stadium Coverage at BIO 2022
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by Cassie Arnold Forty-four early and seed stage companies are presenting at this year’s Start-up Stadium held during the BIO 2022 Conference in San Diego. These companies were selected to present live during the conference from among the more than 150 companies that submitted applications including their pitch decks in April. The applications were reviewed […]
Event Spotlight: The Board Meeting by CRUSH Life Sciences
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CRUSH Life Sciences was founded in 2018 by industry colleagues Laurie Halloran, President & CEO of Halloran Consulting Group, Doug MacDougall, Managing Partner at MacDougall Advisors, and Geoff Meyerson, CEO & Co-Founder of Locust Walk. These entrepreneurs discussed ways to bring together a community of executives for off-the-record chats to talk through successes, challenges, and […]
Spotlight Q&A: The Story of XiltriX
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Stephen Tierney is the President at XiltriX North America, and is based in San Diego, California Big4Bio: What is the story of XiltriX? Tierney: XiltriX North America was established to make science safer and more predictable through technology. Over the past 30 years, XiltriX has been developed in-house by our sister company in the Netherlands. […]
Spotlight: Event Recap from 2021 DEI Report
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NOTE: On December 8th, Big4Bio:Philadelphia sponsor Life Sciences Pennsylvania (LSPA) conducted a virtual leadership panel with representatives from three different industries to discuss their culture, hiring practices, and managing the changing landscape of the workforce. Part 1 of a transcript recap of this event is included in our just-published 2021 DEI Report; part 2 continues […]
Spotlight: Keeping the Life Sciences Workplace Safe
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The Big4Bio Podcast · Keeping the Life Sciences Workplace Safe
Spotlight: Quintara Discovery — A CRO Where No Project is Too Big or Too Small
Marie Daghlian Quintara Discovery, Inc prides itself for being a flexible partner in biotech companies’ drug discovery and development efforts. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, it provides high-quality drug discovery services to the vibrant biotech community in the region and beyond, including in vitro ADME profiling, bioanalysis services, and dedicated assay development and […]
Spotlight: The 2021 Life Sciences Workforce Trends Report for California
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Big4Bio sponsors Biocom and CLS have published a joint report, “2021 Life Sciences Workforce Trends,” which includes the most pressing current and projected talent needs of California’s life sciences industry, a constantly-leading driver of employment across the state. The three foundational datasets described, include the number of job postings from January 2017 to December 2020, […]
Spotlight: Explora BioLabs
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Leading the Nation’s Preclinical Vivarium Market Explora BioLabs provides preclinical, AAALAC-accredited vivarium space and related services to biotech clients in development stages from early startup to maturity. With nearly 200,000 square feet of space across 18 locations in biotech-dense communities, the company prides itself on providing clients the ability to initiate preclinical in vivo programs […]
The Big4Bio Company to Watch Program
September 2021: Molecular Assemblies
September 2021: Molecular Assemblies
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THE COMPANY/THE MISSION Changing the Paradigm for Writing DNA Molecular Assemblies’ leaders detail how the company got started, the company’s technology for synthesizing DNA, and why that technology is better than current methods. THE TECHNOLOGY, PART 1 Moving Synthetic Biology into the 21st Century A deeper look at the company’s enzymatic DNA synthesis […]
Sikich + Process Stream = Expanded Best of Breed Solutions Through a Company’s Journey
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Sikich LLP is a 1000-member business advisory firm that offers ERP and CRM technology and accounting services to a broad array of companies, including life sciences, tailored to fit their specific needs. In April 2021, Sikich acquired Process Stream, a leader in digital transformation services for regulated industries, which includes life sciences. The acquisition expands Sikich’s offerings […]
The Big4Bio Company to Watch Program
July 2021: Meissa Vaccines
July 2021: Meissa Vaccines
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THE COMPANY/THE MISSION Meissa Vaccines Is Driven to Rid the World of Viral Respiratory Scourges Meissa Vaccines is on a mission to solve a puzzle that has eluded scientists for decades—a pediatric vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. THE PIPELINE Building Single Dose, Intranasal Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19 and RSV Making vaccines […]
The Big4Bio Company to Watch Program
May 2021: Venatorx Pharmaceuticals
May 2021: Venatorx Pharmaceuticals
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THE COMPANY/THE MISSION The Drug Hunter Flying Under the Radar In 2010, Drs. Christopher Burns, Daniel Pevear, and Luigi Xerri set out to build a company focused on anti-infectives; they named it Venatorx, which loosely translated means “Drug Hunter.” THE PIPELINE Addressing the Next Pandemic: Superbugs Venatorx’s lead clinical-stage antibiotics address the growing problem […]
SPOTLIGHT: Big4Bio:San Diego 2020 Year-in-Review
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Welcome to the 2020 Big4Bio Year-in-Review for the San Diego region! We hope you enjoy looking back on 2020’s top stories, deals, and M&A that went down in San Diego’s research, pharma, and biotech sectors as we head into 2021. Here’s what you’ll find inside the Year-in-Review 2020 report: Facts about San Diego’s life sciences […]