Category: Bioscience
Biocom’s 2020 Economic Impact Report highlights the growth of lifesciences industry in CA
LAEDC partner Biocom, an organization dedicated to assisting business growth and hiring in the region’s lifesciences/biosciences industry has published a new report on the increasing…
Grifols Collaboration with US Government to Produce the First Treatment Specifically Targeting COVID-19
Lifescience company Grifols, with significant operations in LA, is pivoting to serve immediate health needs during the pandemic, using its advanced blood plasma processing operations…
Bioscience hubs in LA County visualized in new datsheets
LAEDC has published several new snapshots of geographic hubs in the bioscience industry of LA County, to help illuminate total number of jobs, occupations, wages,…
LAEDC celebrates new funding for bioscience apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships
U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a $12 million grant to West Los Angeles College/South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB) collaborative that will be part…
CA Investment Guide describes LA’s thriving industries and talent
Site Selection Magazine has published an update to the California Investment Guide, which provides a great overview of major industries creating opportunity in LA and…
Los Angeles is rising as a focal point for the state’s bioscience industry according to recent report from Biocom
According to a recently completed study by Biocom on “The Impact of Life Science in California,” Los Angeles is emerging as the state’s next bioscience…
LAEDC continues to support living-wage jobs in bioscience via support for Overlay Zones
LAEDC continues to take action to support growth of living-wage jobs in the promising bioscience industry in LA, and on April 30th, LAEDC provided public…
Community college system, students and businesses benefiting from CCW partnership
LAEDC has published a playbook for industry-education partnerships, in the form of a Project Update about the work of Center for a Competitive Workforce (CCW). …
Big Takeaways From Recent Bioscience Workforce Development Council Meeting
(Los Angeles, CA) On March 22nd, 2019 the LAEDC and the Center for Competitive Workforce (CCW) co-hosted the Bioscience Workforce Council Meeting at the LARTA…
LA Business Journal: Biotech Sees VC Cash Flow
BIOTECH: $320M Westlake fund excites local firms By Dana Bartholomew Friday, December 14, 2018 Read the full story at LA Business Journal. What follows is an…
Three reasons to take notice of HATCH’s transformative presence in East Los Angeles
The 17,000 square foot facility located at the 5370 block of Alhambra Avenue in El Sereno was once one of the many metal works, or furniture…
Amgen backs Los Angeles as new Golden State bio hub
Amgen has thrown its weight behind a new organization that aims to transform the Los Angeles area into a life sciences hot spot—nestled in between…
Biosciences Growth in Pasadena Shows Potential for All of LA County
Pasadena Star News highlighted the addition of three new bioscience / lifescience research centers and other bioscience institutions in the area, illustrating how the industry…
Bioscience Incubator Space Thriving in LA, According to LA Business Journal
Los Angeles Business Journal reporter Dana Bartholomew discusses the rapid expansion of resources that help LA County’s growing bioscience / lifescience industry cluster, in the…
Bioscience Industry Cluster Growing Rapidly in East L.A.
Guest article by Howard Kozloff, Agora Partners, Co-Developer of HATCH. Los Angeles has the opportunity to catalyze the city’s growing life science industry by nurturing…
LAEDC helps LA Biomed research facility secure $14M in federal funding
Deal will facilitate significant progress for Los Angeles bioscience industry cluster (October 20, 2017) The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) today announced that…
Biotech Wetlab Space Gets Its Closeup in LA Business Journal
Article titled Space Jam draws attention to growing bioscience industry cluster, mentions LAEDC and partner Biocom As LAEDC and partner Biocom foster growth of the…
Biocom’s New Advisory Board for L.A. Includes LAEDC CEO Bill Allen
As Biocom continues to expand its life science industry advocacy and support in LA County, it has tapped LAEDC’s Bill Allen along with 10 other…
LA Business Journal: Reason to Ponder Biotech’s Future in L.A.
LAEDC’s Bill Allen and Biocom’s Dina Lozofsky coauthored a commentary on bioscience in LA County, to put in context a potent new source of economic development…
People, Industries, Jobs Report – 2017 Edition
LAEDC has published the 2017 People, Industries and Jobs Report, which provides in-depth analysis of key industries and occupations for the Los Angeles region, including…
State must keep the life sciences healthy: Guest commentary
As LAEDC continues to foster growth of the lifesciences / biosciences industry cluster in the Los Angeles region, we wanted to share excerpts of an…
Report: LA Bioscience Industry Growing, Creating Jobs
LAEDC partner Biocom, which is celebrating one year of supporting the lifescience industry in Los Angeles, today published a report on bioscience / lifescience jobs and…
LA’s Bioscience Industry Discussed in Article, LAEDC Partner Biocom Ramping Efforts
LAEDC partner Biocom is actively fostering growth of the bioscience industry in L.A., and Dina Lozofsky of Biocom talks about the market opportunity in this…