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March 12th, 2025

SOCALBIO Networking Mixer in Irvine

Thursday, February 27 · 4 - 7 pm PST

@ UCI

Join us for an evening of networking! Connect with professionals from Orange County’s biotech, medtech, and digital health sectors while enjoying great food and drinks. Learn how SoCalBio can support your company and discover cost-saving opportunities through our Group Purchasing Program. Enjoy great food, drinks, and valuable conversations with industry peers!

SOCALBIO Networking Mixer in Pasadena

Thursday, April 17 · 4 - 7 pm PST

@ Pasadena Bio Collaborative

Join us for an evening of networking! Connect with professionals from Pasandena's biotech, medtech, and digital health sectors while enjoying great food and drinks.

The Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator is a non-profit organization created to support the growing number of life science start-ups in the Los Angeles area. 

Improving women’s health by addressing autoimmune disease

Women’s health is under-researched and under-funded—especially when it comes to autoimmune disease. For International Women’s Day, we looked at why.

Why it matters: Autoimmune disease impacts 24 million Americans, and 80% are women. For instance, women are 10x more likely than men to develop Hashimoto’s disease, the most common cause of hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) in the United States. Autoimmune diseases result in about $100 billion in treatment costs annually, focused on symptom management and slowing disease progression. 

Why woman are more frequently impacted: The reasons for these disparities are complex, and not completely understood. Better understanding why women are disproportionately affected may hold valuable clues for a cure.

The need for action: The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) policy agenda targets improved autoimmune disease research in women. It urges policy improvements, including more research on:

• the role hormonal changes play in autoimmune risk and symptom severity;
• the biological and environmental mechanisms that affect autoimmune incidence and outcomes across different racial and ethnic populations, and factors that predispose individuals to these diseases; and
• research funding to improve the knowledge base, and drive progress forward.

Read more on Bio.News.

Special Saving on Lab Supplies

Become a member of SoCalBio and enjoy fantastic savings on lab supplies from Avantor's extensive catalog through SoCalBio's Group Purchasing.

11th Annual

American Biomanufacturing Summit

April 15-16, 2025 - San Francisco, CA

The American Biomanufacturing Summit is taking place April 15-16, 2025, in San Francisco, CA. The summit brings together over 200 biopharma and biotech executive leaders for 2 days of sessions, workshops, and networking. 

With sessions led by top biotech executives, the agenda is designed to discuss current trends, strategic insights, and best practices in key topics like manufacturing, cell and gene therapy, capacity management, quality assurance, quality control, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, supply chain and logistics. Network with your fellow biopharma leaders as we explore strategies to maximize efficiency while remaining compliant within the biomanufacturing space.

Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum:

The AI Hardware Ecosystem: AI Factories of the Future

March 15, 2025 - Pasadena, CA

The industry forecasts over $1 Trillion of hardware investment will be made in AI Factories between now and 2030. NVIDIA’s chips are only a fraction of the investment needed and small firms working on cooling solutions are becoming overnight unicorns. Anyone doing a better job solving the increasing technical challenges of data transmittal, power management, cooling and memory in an AI can find quick growth from customers like Microsoft, Amazon or Meta for their data centers.

MDMA 2025 Annual Meeting

April 30-May 2nd, 2025 - Washington, DC

We are proud to partner with Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) to support their upcoming 2025 Annual Meeting being held  April 30-May 2nd  in Washington, DC. SoCalBio members receive a discount on registration. Attendees at this year's conference will hear from Congressional, Federal Agency and industry leaders on current and upcoming issues impacting our industry. Attendees also have an opportunity to visit Capitol Hill and meet with our Congressional delegation during MDMA's popular Congressional Fly-In.