Amgen to pay $1 quarterly dividend
Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen announced another quarterly dividend of $1 per share Oct. 14 for the fourth quarter of 2016. The dividend will be paid on Dec. 8, 2016, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on Nov. 16, 2016. • Contact Philip Joens at [email protected].
Former Cottage Hospital supervisor charged with embezzling
A former Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital employee was charged with embezzling more than $200,000 from the hospital’s unincorporated Medical Staff Association, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney announced on Oct. 14. Cottage’s former Medical Staff Services Supervisor Pamela Cochran-Escalante is charged with one count of grand theft with the special allegation that she took more Read More →
iCRco files for bankruptcy following lawsuit
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Amgen spends big to defeat Proposition 61
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Amgen sells Colorado facility to AstraZeneca for $64.5 million
Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen continued its Colorado exit plans recently as it sold a Longmont, Colo., facility to London-based pharmaceutical and biotech company AstraZeneca for $64.5 million. Amgen built the 692,000-square-foot facility in the 1990s to make ingredients for its blockbuster anti-anemia drug Epogen. The site used large vats to produce lines of cell Read More →
Nurses claim labor law violations in suit against Twin Cities Community Hospital
A group of 53 nurses filed claims against Templeton’s Twin Cities Community Hospital for allegedly violating California labor laws, according to a news release from the law firm Baltodano & Baltodano. The claims were filed in private arbitration on Oct. 3 because of the confidentiality provisions in the nurses’ contracts with the hospital, said Lauren Read More →
Amgen partners with Swedish company to develop drugs
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen will pay a Swedish company up to $410 million to help it develop oncology and neuroscience drugs. The companies announced the partnership Oct. 4 and said Nuevolution will use its Chemetics drug discovery platform to discover drugs for Amgen. Nuevolution may receive licensing payments along with development, commercial and milestone payments. It Read More →
