Ron Leuty
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Biotech reporter, San Francisco Business Times
Berkeley and Emeryville built for biotech just before the sector crashed — what happens with those vacant buildings now? - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Berkeley and Emeryville built for biotech just before the sector crashed — what happens with those vacant buildings now? - San Francisco Business Times
In a sign of trouble for the East Bay's life sciences cluster, Oxford Properties is selling its Emeryville site after abandoning lab development plans. Here's how that makes for part of the bigger pic...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Berkeley and Emeryville built for biotech just before the sector crashed — what happens with those vacant buildings now? - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Abbott Laboratories and Cologuard maker Exact Sciences land $23 billion deal — Here's how Bay Area could be affected www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Abbott Laboratories and Cologuard maker Exact Sciences land $23 billion deal — Here's how Bay Area could be affected - San Francisco Business Times
Why Abbott Labs is making a big buy with potential Bay Area impact
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November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Abbott Laboratories and Cologuard maker Exact Sciences land $23 billion deal — Here's how Bay Area could be affected www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Profluent, which just raised $106M from Jeff Bezos and others, launched a partnership with the Rett Syndrome Research Trust that focuses on base editors to permanently correct mutations to the gene that cause the rare neurodevelopment disorder www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
East Bay AI biotech company raises $106 million from Jeff Bezos and others - San Francisco Business Times
Created by leaders of a Salesforce skunkworks, this East Bay AI company just raised $106 million from Jeff Bezos and others.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Profluent, which just raised $106M from Jeff Bezos and others, launched a partnership with the Rett Syndrome Research Trust that focuses on base editors to permanently correct mutations to the gene that cause the rare neurodevelopment disorder www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
In big win for Freenome's CEO in his 1st year, cancer test company inks deal with Roche - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Freenome lands global commercialization deal with Roche for blood-based colon cancer test - San Francisco Business Times
Brisbane-based Freenome has locked in a second major partnership for its blood-based cancer screening test, this time with a Switzerland-based diagnostics giant that already has invested hundreds of m...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In big win for Freenome's CEO in his 1st year, cancer test company inks deal with Roche - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Former Amgen site head joins Genentech as former Genentech cancer immunology exec moves to Amgen
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Former Amgen site head joins Genentech as former Genentech cancer immunology exec moves to Amgen - San Francisco Business Times
Two big biotech companies have traded top research executives. Learn who went where.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Former Amgen site head joins Genentech as former Genentech cancer immunology exec moves to Amgen
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Sutter Health will construct a 272-bed, eight-story medical center near Levi’s Stadium as part of the not-for-profit health care system's $2.8 billion buildout in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Sutter Health to build record-setting new hospital campus in Santa Clara - San Francisco Business Times
Sutter Health has earmarked its largest ever facilities investment with a major hospital project in Santa Clara.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sutter Health will construct a 272-bed, eight-story medical center near Levi’s Stadium as part of the not-for-profit health care system's $2.8 billion buildout in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule.
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
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Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
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Louisiana restricts access to abortion pills by classifying them as a controlled substance
A bill that would restrict access to abortion pills has been signed into law in Louisiana. The law reclassifies the drugs as a controlled substance, grouping them with Xanax and Valium. Possession wit...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule.
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Jeff Bluestone exits as Sonoma Bio CEO as Stephen Dilly steps in - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Jeff Bluestone to step down as CEO of Sonoma Biotherapeutics - San Francisco Business Times
Biotech's co-founder won Nobel Prize. Now another is exiting CEO job
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November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Jeff Bluestone exits as Sonoma Bio CEO as Stephen Dilly steps in - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Revolution Medicines is doing something truly revolutionary — it's hired hundreds just this year and it's still looking for more people
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Revolution Medicine is 'within sight' of 1,000 employees and looking for a new office to fit them - San Francisco Business Times
"We're growing a lot. There's more growth ahead of us," says Revolution Medicines CEO Mark Goldsmith. Here's how his company is defying the biotech sector's pain.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Revolution Medicines is doing something truly revolutionary — it's hired hundreds just this year and it's still looking for more people
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AbbVie and Calico end 11-year partnership without approved drug - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
AbbVie and Calico end groundbreaking partnership after 11 years without an approved drug - San Francisco Business Times
An 11-year, $2 billion partnership has yet to produce an approved drug, but five attempts are in clinical trials.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
AbbVie and Calico end 11-year partnership without approved drug - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Health care providers join suit alleging 'price-fixing' by 'cartel' of insurers for out-of-network work www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
California group joins massive suit alleging price fixing by 'mafia enforcer' for major insurers - San Francisco Business Times
The nation’s largest health insurance companies stand accused of conspiring to suppress reimbursement rates for hundreds of millions of medical procedures. They call it competition. Plaintiffs say it'...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Health care providers join suit alleging 'price-fixing' by 'cartel' of insurers for out-of-network work www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
The nine-year-old company, which IPO'd in February 2024, peaked at 237 employees in spring 2024. New cuts will bring its workforce under 100. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
This East Bay company had an IPO less than two years ago. Now it's laying off a quarter of its staff and installing a new CEO - San Francisco Business Times
Metagenomi will cut 31 jobs and shift focus to its hemophilia A gene therapy as founding CEO Brian Thomas steps down and Jian Irish takes over.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The nine-year-old company, which IPO'd in February 2024, peaked at 237 employees in spring 2024. New cuts will bring its workforce under 100. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
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The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
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"Our technology has the potential to truly enable the delivery of a breadth of siRNA therapeutic opportunities to all patient populations." www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Codexis switches CEOs as it lays off workers and grabs manufacturing space in East Bay - San Francisco Business Times
Here's why a Peninsula biotech switched CEOs, cut jobs and took new space in Hayward.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Our technology has the potential to truly enable the delivery of a breadth of siRNA therapeutic opportunities to all patient populations." www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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Step 1: Make things more expensive by taxing them
Step 2: Realize you're unpopular because of Step 1
Step 3: Use finances (illegally) obtained via taxes to buy support
Step 4: Drive up prices because you've subsidized taxed consumption
Step 2: Realize you're unpopular because of Step 1
Step 3: Use finances (illegally) obtained via taxes to buy support
Step 4: Drive up prices because you've subsidized taxed consumption
Trump: "We're gonna issue a dividend to our middle income people and lower income people of about $2,000, and we're gonna use the remaining tariffs to lower our debt."
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Step 1: Make things more expensive by taxing them
Step 2: Realize you're unpopular because of Step 1
Step 3: Use finances (illegally) obtained via taxes to buy support
Step 4: Drive up prices because you've subsidized taxed consumption
Step 2: Realize you're unpopular because of Step 1
Step 3: Use finances (illegally) obtained via taxes to buy support
Step 4: Drive up prices because you've subsidized taxed consumption
Adverum warned in August of its desperate need for cash. It turns out it was already was deep in talks with Lilly at that time, but on a licensing deal, not a buyout. Then a loan. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
How Adverum and its pioneering gene therapy ended up in a buyout by drug giant Lilly - San Francisco Business Times
Here’s exactly how Adverum and its pioneering gene therapy ended up in an unusual deal with Lilly.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Adverum warned in August of its desperate need for cash. It turns out it was already was deep in talks with Lilly at that time, but on a licensing deal, not a buyout. Then a loan. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Kezar Life Sciences to lay off 70% amid FDA setback - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Kezar Life Sciences to lay off 70% of workforce as dispute with FDA apparently continues - San Francisco Business Times
Kezar Life Sciences to cut 70% of jobs in restructuring
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November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Kezar Life Sciences to lay off 70% amid FDA setback - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Denali Therapeutics' Carole Ho leaves for Lilly neuroscience job - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Denali Therapeutics is losing Carole Ho, as she heads to Lilly as head of neuroscience - San Francisco Business Times
Key Denali Therapeutics exec exits to head Lilly's neuroscience unit
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November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Denali Therapeutics' Carole Ho leaves for Lilly neuroscience job - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
'We jumped all over it': How drug maker Evommune seized on the federal shutdown to nail a $150 million IPO www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
'We jumped all over it': How drug maker Evommune took advantage of the federal shutdown to nail a $150 million IPO - San Francisco Business Times
For this Bay Area company, the government shutdown created an opportunity. "We jumped all over" the chance to go public, the CEO told the Business Times.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
'We jumped all over it': How drug maker Evommune seized on the federal shutdown to nail a $150 million IPO www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
BillionToOne IPO becomes $5 billion explosion as Bay Area medical test maker's stock soars in debut - San Francisco Business Times
BillionToOne? More like $5 billion.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
BillionToOne IPO becomes $5 billion explosion as Bay Area medical test maker's stock soars in debut - San Francisco Business Times
BillionToOne? More like $5 billion.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
BillionToOne stands out among biotech IPOs — first, the diagnostic test company has revenue; second, first-day trading popped www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
RFK Jr. stopped a Covid vaccine trial. Bay Area biotechs may save it - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
RFK Jr. stopped Vaxart's oral Covid-19 vaccine trial. Now, a new partnership could save it - San Francisco Business Times
RFK Jr. stopped Vaxart's work on an oral Covid-19 vaccine. Now the company has a new partner in Dynavax
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November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
RFK Jr. stopped a Covid vaccine trial. Bay Area biotechs may save it - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
"We're in a place here with this program where it has the potential to move forward the standard of care." — Braveheart Bio CEO Travis Murdoch www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
$185 million, proven team lead startup Braveheart Bio's toward late-stage heart drug trial - San Francisco Business Times
Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher and Travis Murdoch — fellow Canadians — hit it off when Biogen last year bought Murdoch's HI-Bio for $1 billion. Now they're teaming up on heart-focused Braveheart Bio, bac...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"We're in a place here with this program where it has the potential to move forward the standard of care." — Braveheart Bio CEO Travis Murdoch www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Why Jennifer Doudna, Reed Jobs and others are backing this East Bay biotech aimed at cancer and chronic autoimmune diseases www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Why Jennifer Doudna, Reed Jobs and others are backing this East Bay biotech's in-body cell fix-it shop - San Francisco Business Times
Jennifer Doudna. Reed Jobs' Yosemite Ventures. Third Rock Ventures. CAR-T. CRISPR. Gladstone. Parker Institute. UCSF. UC Berkeley. Stanford. Startup Azalea Therapeutics' got it all — including a fresh...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Why Jennifer Doudna, Reed Jobs and others are backing this East Bay biotech aimed at cancer and chronic autoimmune diseases www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
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SCOOP: Idaho’s health department quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding in April, leaving patients statewide without any access to the family planning program.
One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all.
From me:
One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all.
From me:
While some states fight to restore Title X family planning funding, Idaho chooses to forfeit it
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding, leaving patients statewide without free and low-cost contraception and repr...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
SCOOP: Idaho’s health department quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding in April, leaving patients statewide without any access to the family planning program.
One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all.
From me:
One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all.
From me: