LifeLines magazine, BIOCOM’s quarterly publication, covers Southern California’s life science industry, its innovation and its newsmakers that are saving lives and changing health care. More than 5,000 people across the nation receive LifeLines, including industry CEOs and other top-level decision makers. Thousands more people read the electronic version. To subscribe to LifeLines, or learn about advertising opportunities, please contact Terri Somers, BIOCOM’s Director of Communications.

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Our industry has just experienced one of the most challenging years in the history of the life sciences, with turmoil in the financial markets and changes in political leadership at the national level forcing us to strengthen our advocacy for policies that promote biomedical innovation. There were also fundamental changes in the life science funding model, which has already effected how new companies will be structured. Our goal was the creation of a progressive new strategic plan for BIOCOM that would equip our association and its members with the tools needed to help them address challenges and capitalize on opportunities in these changing times.

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California is still the dream state. It’s an unparalleled engine of innovation, the mecca of biotech, high tech and now clean tech. In wipeout 2008, California’s wipeout economy attracted more venture capital than the rest of the nation combined. The Golden State has fought the status quo since its birth 160 years ago. And even amid a particularly rough chapter in the state’s history, the nation’s future is being written in California, TIME Magazine reporter Michael Grunwald wrote in the Nov. 2, 2009 issue of the national magazine. During his whirlwind reporting tour of California, Grunwald spent hours with BIOCOM CEO Joe Panetta visiting several Southern California life science companies and meeting some of the industry’s visionaries, including J. Craig Venter, a genomics pioneer. The seasoned reporter obviously liked what he saw and heard.