Sale of Atara’s Thousand Oaks property will fund company’s drug development through 2023
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Community Memorial CEO to retire
Gary Wilde, who led Community Memorial Health System through a $280 million, seven-year project to build a new hospital in Ventura, will retire later this year as president and CEO of the nonprofit health care provider. Wilde, 66, came to Community Memorial Hospital in 2004 from Cottage Health System in Santa Barbara. The next year, Read More →
In Thousand Oaks, biotech execs discuss industry’s ‘rising tide,’ lament area’s lack of housing
In a dark period for the Ventura County economy, immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the biotechnology sector in the Conejo Valley has been a bright spot. The sector has grown in jobs, economic output and new businesses since 2019, even when the county as a whole has not, according to data presented on Read More →
Atara closes $100M sale of Thousand Oaks facility
Atara Biotherapeutics, a drugmaker based in South San Francisco with a large presence in Thousand Oaks, announced April 4 that its cell therapy manufacturing facility in Thousand Oaks was purchased by Fujifilm Corp. for $100 million. The deal was first announced in January and is part of a long-term strategic supply agreement between Atara and Read More →
Sientra reports rising revenue, declining losses
Goleta-based Sientra reported record revenue for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021, and while the company still saw net losses, they were lower, the company reported March 23. Sientra, a breast implant manufacturer, had revenue of $22.6 million for the quarter, representing growth of 26.6% year-over-year, excluding discontinued operations. For the full year, Read More →
Cottage files suit against Kaiser seeking ‘tens of millions’
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At Westmont breakfast, author Michael Lewis talks of Santa Barbara’s ‘superhero of communicable disease’
On March 6, 2020, Westmont College held its annual President’s Breakfast, which would be one of the last large indoor, public events in the region before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. The guest was Nobel-winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman. This year on March 4, at the event’s return to the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, Read More →
