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Drugmaker Bioduro-Sundia Expands Footprint in Irvine

Monday, January 03, 2022

(Orange County Business Journal) Contract drugmaker Bioduro-Sundia is doubling up its operational presence in Irvine, as another area drugmaker exits the market. The company, which formed a year ago after San Diego-based Bioduro and Shanghai’s Sundia merged, recently announced it is expanding operations to a second manufacturing facility in the Spectrum area of the city, near the Southern edge of the Great Park in Irvine. The newest addition, a 45,000-square-foot plant, is at 9601 Jeronimo Road. It’s on the same campus as 72 Fairbanks, the company’s first U.S.-based commercial facility, which runs another 66,000 square feet. It announced signing a lease for that buildin...

City Of Hope’s New Irvine Center Will Bring Cancer Care Closer to Orange County Residents

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

(Times OC) City of Hope has a tradition of christening the walls of new buildings with messages of hope and well wishes. During a tour this week of the building that will become the Lennar Foundation Cancer Center in Irvine, several of these messages were written in permanent marker on the bare walls of the center, which will be the only standalone cancer center in Orange County when it opens next year, according to Lisa O’Neill Hill, a spokeswoman for City of Hope Orange County. “Here’s to all the patients who will heal their bodies and souls at City of Hope,” one messag...

MemorialCare Earns Accolades for Patient Care

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

MemorialCare hospitals have received accolades from Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians, and health systems. Long Beach Medical Center was recognized among the top 10 percent in the nation for joint replacement and is a recipient of an Excellence Award and 5-star awards for total knee replacement, total hip replacement, back surgery, pacemaker procedures, and treatment of sepsis and pancreatitis. Orange Coast Medical Center received an Excellence Award in cardiac surgery and 5-star awards in coronary bypass surgery, treatment of heart attack, total knee replacement, hip fracture treatment and treatment of sepsis. Saddleback Medical Center was recognized as one of America’...

City of Hope Orange County Joins with The White Ribbon Project to Change the Lung Cancer Story

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Countering the myth that lung cancer is only a disease of people who smoke and has mostly negative outcomes, City of Hope Orange County is raising awareness for the wide-ranging population at risk and educating those who are diagnosed of game-changing advances in treatment. “Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in Orange County. City of Hope is responding to this pressing need by bringing our world-renowned lung cancer experts and pioneering research closer to home for patients and their families,” said Annette M. Walker, President, City of Hope Orange County. “We are here for everyone impacted by this disease.” T...

UCI Breaks Ground on New Hospital, Specialty Care Centers $1.3 Billion Project

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The University of California, Irvine and UCI Health have broken ground on a new medical complex on the north end of the Irvine campus. The $1.3 billion complex was approved by the UC Board of Regents in January and will include a 144-bed acute care hospital with an emergency room, an outpatient Center for Advanced Care with primary and specialty health services, a Center for Children’s Health and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building. “Today we mark a milestone in the history of UCI, of the history of Irvine, and of anywhere in our region where peopl...

Irvine: At the Heart of Orange County’s Medical Technology Ecosystem

Friday, November 12, 2021

UCI’s Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Cardiovascular Innovation and Research Center enters a new era with its latest philanthropic gift. National Institutes of Health experts say that people who are fortunate enough to survive a brush with COVID-19 may go on to suffer poor cardiovascular health in the future because of the infection. As these millions stand to join others with heart disease – the leading killer of men and women worldwide – the need for affordable, accessible, advanced treatments is becoming increasingly urgent. Scientists and engineers in UCI’s Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Cardiovascular Innovation and Research Center (CIRC) have been anticipating this outcome since th...

UCI Study: Businesses Selling Non-FDA-Approved Stem Cell Products Grew Four-Fold in Five Years

Friday, November 05, 2021

More than four times as many businesses and clinics than were identified in 2016 are selling stem cell products not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lack convincing evidence of safety and efficacy, according to a five-year study conducted by University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health professor of health, society and behavior Leigh Turner. The analysis appears online in the journal Cell Stem Cell. Using tools such as Google Search and Google Maps, Turner found 1,480 U.S. businesses and 2,754 clinics selling purported stem cell treatments compared to a study conducted five years ago that foun...

UCI, CHOC Join New NORD Rare Disease Centers of Excellence Network

Thursday, November 04, 2021

University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Children’s Health of Orange County (CHOC) have been jointly designated a National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) Center of Excellence, joining a new and highly select group of 31 medical centers seeking to expand access and advance care and research for rare disease patients in the United States. The NORD Center of Excellence program aims to foster the sharing of knowledge between experts across the country, connect patients to appropriate specialists regardless of disease or geography, and improve the pace of progress in rare disease diagnosis, treatment, and research. Dr. Virginia Kimonis, professor of genetic and genomi...

City of Hope Honors Transformational Gift with Naming of Building: Belardi Family Pavilion

Friday, September 24, 2021

A gift from financial services executive and entrepreneur Jim Belardi and his wife, Leslie, will provide City of Hope, a world-renowned independent cancer and diabetes research and treatment center, with resources to aggressively advance research into the treatment of blood cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, which account for nearly 10% of new cancer cases each year in the United States. The critical resources provided by the gift are designed to quickly move bold ideas from the laboratory to the patient’s bedside. The gift will support City of Hope’s Hematologic Malignancies Research Institute (HMRI) and will have three areas o...

Hoag Orthopedic Institute Named Among Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), one of the largest providers of orthopedic care in the nation, has been nationally ranked in the top 30 best orthopedic hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s “2021-2022 Best Hospitals” list. HOI’s ranking rose to number 27 in the nation from number 35 the previous year. In addition to this distinction, U.S. News has also recognized HOI as “High Performing” in Back Surgery (Spinal Fusion), Hip Fracture, Hip Replacement, and Knee Replacement for 2021-2022. “HOI is honored to once again be included in U.S. News & World Report’s best hospitals list,” said acting HOI CEO Ki...

Irvine, Orange County: Leader in Patient Care

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

By Bryan Starr, President and CEO, Greater Irvine Chamber As published in the Feb. 15, 2021 issue of the Orange County Business Journal Irvine is a well-established global leader in life sciences, innovation, and medical technology and manufacturing. With companies like Allergan, B. Braun, Biolase Technologies, Edwards Lifesciences, and Kahala Biosciences located in Irvine, and Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Bausch & Lomb, and Beckman Coulter close by, Orange County is a life science innovation hub and has been fairly described as the medical device capital of the world. As reported right here in the pages of the Orange County Business Journal over the past severa...

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