California Life Sciences - CLS

California Life Sciences - CLS California Life Sciences (CLS) is the state’s most influential and impactful life sciences members

About California Life Sciences (CLS)

For more than 30 years, CLS has served the community by supporting companies of all sizes, from early-stage innovators and startups to established industry leaders in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. As integral components of a healthy and collaborative ecosystem, CLS also works closely with universities, academic and resea

rch institutions, the investment community, and other critical partners that promote this vibrant sector. With offices in South San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Washington DC, CLS works to shape public policy, improve access to breakthrough technologies, educate lawmakers, and advance equity within our ecosystem by championing innovative solutions for some of the most pressing challenges of our times. In doing so, CLS fulfills its mission to protect and nurture California’s life sciences industry, empowering discoveries that lead to healthier lives around the world.

Visit CLS at www.califesciences.org, and follow us on Twitter , Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

The warmth of summer is quickly approaching and we're looking forward to many thoughtful, exciting events ahead in the l...
05/28/2025

The warmth of summer is quickly approaching and we're looking forward to many thoughtful, exciting events ahead in the life sciences.

Save these dates!

🔹 Phacilitate Networking Event | May 28 6:30-7:30PM | San Diego Gaslamp District

🔹JLABS SSF 10-year Anniversary Event | Johnson & Johnson | May 29 | South San Francisco

🔹Biotech Networking Happy Hour | 10x Genomics and Partners | May 29 | Menlo Park

🔹Spring Innovation Showcase | California Life Sciences (CLS) | June 4 | Berkeley, CA

🔹 Delivering Good Business Summit | June 5 | Boehringer Ingelheim | Virtual

🔹 California Pavilion at BIO | June 16-19 | California Life Sciences (CLS) | Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

🔹 Bio by the Lagoon | June 22 | Foster City Chamber of Commerce | Foster City, CA

🔹 Biotech Intellectual Property: Insights & Strategies | Bonneville Labs | June 23 | South San Francisco

🔹 Advancing Neuroscience: Breakthroughs in Biomarker Discovery and Preclinical Development for Neurological Diseases | BioIVT | June 25 | South San Francisco

🔹 An Evening With Thought Leaders | California Life Sciences (CLS) | July 17 | San Francisco

Learn more about these events and more at >>> https://bit.ly/3HrbsD4

*CLS Members - contact your Account Manager for event discounts*

https://bit.ly/45lGeXV spring Innovation Showcase is just around the corner on June 4th in Berkeley and will spotlight C...
05/22/2025

https://bit.ly/45lGeXV spring Innovation Showcase is just around the corner on June 4th in Berkeley and will spotlight California’s emerging innovation in the life sciences industry.

Come and see some of our member companies who will be showcasing at our Innovation Showcase Solutions Corridor:
💡 Avantor
💡 Bio-Rad Laboratories
💡 Hogan Lovells
💡 Agilent Technologies
💡 Bakar Bio Labs
💡 Cytiva
💡 Springer Nature
💡 Airgas
💡 Withum
💡 ACROBiosystems

Tickets are still available here >>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-innovation-showcase-tickets-1312079427889?aff=facebook

REMEMBER: All CLS members, investors, and emerging startups receive free admission; simply email srollins@califesciences.org for a code.

Save the dates! 📆 We have rounded up some of the industry's must-attend main events that are coming up now through June:...
05/13/2025

Save the dates! 📆

We have rounded up some of the industry's must-attend main events that are coming up now through June:

🔹 Visionary Awards Reception | California Life Sciences (CLS) | May 13 | Washington, D.C.

🔹 Aon Giants Luxury Suite | May 14 | Oracle Park

🔹 Science on Tap Happy Hour | California Life Sciences (CLS) | May 15 | San Diego

🔹 Aon Executive Networking | May 15 | Palo Alto Four Seasons

🔹 TIDES USA: Bridging Research to Reality | May 19-22 | San Diego | CLS Members Save 10%*

🔹 Bay Area Biotech Forum | San Francisco Business Times | May 20 | San Francisco

🔹JLABS SSF 10-year Anniversary Event | Johnson & Johnson | May 29 | South San Francisco

🔹Spring Innovation Showcase | California Life Sciences (CLS) | June 4 | Berkeley, CA

🔹 Delivering Good Business Summit | June 5 | Virtual

🔹 California Pavilion at BIO | June 16-19 | Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

Learn more about these events and more at >>> https://hubs.li/Q03mjS6s0

*CLS Members - contact your Account Manager for event discounts*

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Looking to break into the life sciences? Or are you a company looking to hire? Check out the California Life Sciences (C...
04/08/2025

Looking to break into the life sciences? Or are you a company looking to hire?

Check out the California Life Sciences (CLS) Career Center to explore job openings at leading companies in the industry, including:

🔷 Merck | Principal Scientist | South San Francisco
🔷 AbbVie | Senior Scientist, II | South San Francisco
🔷 Genentech | Principal Scientist, Toxicologist | South San Francisco
🔷 Capital One | Principal Data Scientist | San Jose
🔷 Thermo Fisher Scientific | Proteomics Scientist | San Jose
🔷 Gilead Sciences | Postdoctoral Scientist, Structural Biology | Foster City
🔷 Leidos | Principal Software Scientist | San Diego

Are you hiring? 📣 Post your open positions on our website to connect with top talent and expand your applicant reach!

Learn more >>> https://bit.ly/4lhNp9b

Welcome to California Life Sciences, newest members! We are so excited to have you as a part of our life sciences commun...
04/07/2025

Welcome to California Life Sciences, newest members! We are so excited to have you as a part of our life sciences community.

Cleancard
Cosigned
How Women Invest
Land Medicine
MAI Construction, Inc
Misogi Labs
Needle GPS
Ocusphere Therapeutics Inc
Patient With Us, LLC
Scudo Biosciences
Shenandoah Therapeutics
Simurx, Inc.
Sun Vectors
Takeoff41
Toft Group Executive Search, a ZRG Company
Torrent Laboratory, Inc.
Voyant Bio

04/04/2025

The 2025 Life Sciences Academy was the largest ever in its 12-year history with 28 legislators and 40+ CLS member companies represented. Both democrat and republican legislators participated in the premiere life sciences education forum to hear directly from patients and to discuss how California can advance policies that improve patient access. We are incredibly grateful for California lawmakers who support life sciences innovation and the incredible breakthroughs that give patients hope around the world.

CLS Member Montara Therapeutics, Inc. is committed to exploring new perspectives to make extraordinary discoveries. Our ...
04/03/2025

CLS Member Montara Therapeutics, Inc. is committed to exploring new perspectives to make extraordinary discoveries. Our latest member spotlight, a biotech company pioneering brain-selective therapies for CNS diseases, recently announced the closing of a $20 million oversubscribed expansion of its Series Seed financing. The round, which brings Montara’s total seed funding to $28 million, includes increased participation from all existing investors, including founding investor SV Health Investors’ Dementia Discovery Fund, Two Bear Capital, Dolby Family Ventures, and KdT Ventures, along with new investments from BEVC and additional investors.

“This funding positions us to deliver on our mission — developing BrainOnly™ therapies, which selectively target the CNS while blocking harmful peripheral effects", said Nicholas T. Hertz, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Montara. "It enables us to drive our lead rare epilepsy program to IND within the next 12 months while accelerating a second program for an age-related neurodegenerative disease and a third, undisclosed initiative. The fact that we have been able to rapidly generate in vivo proof of concept and move towards IND enabling studies in just one year underscores the strength of our team and the BrainOnly™ platform."

Congratulations to the entire team at Montara Therapeutics, Inc., and we look forward to seeing how you continue to advance the life sciences industry!

Read full release here >>> https://bit.ly/4iOmLTK

Save the dates! 📆 We have rounded up some of the industry's must-attend main events that are coming up over the next sev...
04/02/2025

Save the dates! 📆

We have rounded up some of the industry's must-attend main events that are coming up over the next several weeks.

🔹Launch, Grow, Succeed: Navigate the Path to Legal Success Series | Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP | April 2, 9 and 16 6-7PM PST | Virtual

🔹From the Laboratory to Leadership - The Leadership Edge | April 7-10 | Virtual | *CLS Members Save $500*

🔹SoCal Social: Sustainability in Life Sciences | California Life Sciences (CLS) | April 22 | San Diego

🔹Festival of Biologics | April 23 - April 24 | San Diego, CA

🔹Capital Connect: Rising Above the Noise in Biopharma Investing | Foley & Lardner LLP | April 24 | Palo Alto

🔹SDDS 2025: Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium | April 28-29 | Stanford

🔹SynBioBeta: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference | May 5-8 | San Jose

🔹2025 JLABS Investor & Partnering Day | Johnson & Johnson | May 7 | New York

🔹Visionary Awards Reception | California Life Sciences (CLS) | May 13 | Washington D.C.

View event details and more at https://bit.ly/3FSlLiT

Looking for your next opportunity in life sciences? Or are you a company looking to hire? 🔬 Check out the CLS Career Cen...
03/25/2025

Looking for your next opportunity in life sciences? Or are you a company looking to hire? 🔬

Check out the CLS Career Center to explore job openings at leading companies in the industry, including:

🔷 Kite Pharma | QC Microbiologist | & Director, HEOR | Santa Monica
🔷 BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | Scientist, Technical Development & Services | Novato
🔷 City of Palo Alto | Senior Chemist (Regional Water Quality Control Plant) | Palo Alto
🔷 Tempus AI | Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Digital Pathology | Redwood City
🔷 Merck | Principal Scientist, Discovery Biology - Ophthalmology | South San Francisco
🔷 AstraZeneca | Senior Scientist Process Development | California

Are you hiring? 📣 Post your open positions on our website to connect with top talent and expand your applicant reach!

Learn more >>> https://bit.ly/4c8BjLG

Our President and CEO Mike Guerra had the opportunity to be a panelist on the Bay Area Biotech Forum last week in South ...
03/24/2025

Our President and CEO Mike Guerra had the opportunity to be a panelist on the Bay Area Biotech Forum last week in South San Francisco. The topic of the evening was "The New Administration and What it Means for our Industry."

Thank you to the sponsors and other panelists who made this an engaging, insightful event!

🔹 Dana Watt, PhD, Partner, Breakout Ventures
🔹 Elizabeth Mulkey, Partner, Life Sciences Regulatory & Compliance, Goodwin
🔹 Kevin Grimes, Professor, Stanford University & Co-Director, SPARK
🔹 Mike Guerra, President & CEO, California Life Sciences (CLS)
🔹 Moderator Chris Otey, Managing Director, Life Sciences Venture Banking, Banc of California

Join us at the Festival of Biologics and get an opportunity to meet the CLS team and CLS members and FAST California alu...
03/06/2025

Join us at the Festival of Biologics and get an opportunity to meet the CLS team and CLS members and FAST California alumni like Reactosome.

Reactosome is building a synthetic nucleus — to enable the safest gene therapies with the largest cargo. Their synthetic nuclei once inside cells operate continuously, mirroring cells' own nucleus in function. And this method allows them to achieve way longer expression than any RNA-based solutions, without any DNA-based safety concerns.

We look forward to an exciting biologics event at the Festival of Biologics and meeting fellow colleagues, companies and life science-loving industry peers.

CLS Members can secure a FREE pass, while supplies last, or a 25% Discount off all passes. Please contact your CLS account manager for details.

Learn more >>> https://bit.ly/4isSOIe

We are excited to welcome our newest members to CLS!3D BioAnalytiX Big Sur Bio, Inc.BioCentriqBioIVT Bioxytech Retina, I...
03/03/2025

We are excited to welcome our newest members to CLS!

3D BioAnalytiX
Big Sur Bio, Inc.
BioCentriq
BioIVT
Bioxytech Retina, Inc.
KINOVATE LIFE SCIENCES, INC
LabEaze LLC

Learn more about membership opportunities here >>> https://bit.ly/4bs6TDq

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