Amgen's new research and development facility in San Francisco. (courtesy photo) Shares of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen gained 12% on May 3, one day after the company disclosed its earnings for the first quarter of 2024 and highlighted the excitement around its weight-loss drug. During the company’s earnings call, Amgen CEO Bob Bradway commented on their
A rendering of Many Mansions’ Aspire Apartments in Oxnard. (courtesy photo) Housing Trust Fund Ventura County on May 2 announced $12 million in loan commitments for 492 affordable housing units in Oxnard, Santa Paula and Ventura. The nonprofit said $7 million of the commitments will be matched by Prop 1 funding. The Valentine Road Apartments
This year’s 101 Biotech Corridor Conference started with a bang when Brent Reinke, one of the many minds behind the event and the founder of BioScience Alliance, showed just four slides. All four were maps of the Conejo Valley’s biotech layout. The first was from more than a decade ago when there were less than
I first got to know Vince Stanley five years ago when the Business Times held its Central Coast Innovation Awards in the wake of the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslides. We had not given a lot of coverage to Patagonia until then and the Business Times sometimes felt that Patagonia’s stands against development were making
An oil well in the Sespe Oil Field. (courtesy photo) Two federal agencies have turned down a decade-old proposal to drill and frack eight new wells in the Sespe Oil Field in Los Padres National Forest north of Fillmore. Jeff Kuyper, executive director of environmental group Los Padres ForestWatch, hailed the denial of the project,