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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Matt Gardner joins Bay Area Council as chief business officer

The Bay Area Council has hired former BayBio boss Matt Gardner as chief business officer, a role aimed at increasing the business group's membership. Gardner in fall 2009 resigned from BayBioafter six years at the helm of the Northern California life sciences trade group. Since then, he has been involved with a number of startup and technology-focused organizations.

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Some of my favorite stories.

• "The fight of his life" (2007)

Last year Mike Homer helped raise the money for 2,000 medical research computers. Now researchers are using that equipment in an attempt to save his life.

• "For reporter, CJD is more than a story" (2007)

Seven years ago -- nearly to the day -- my mother died of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.

• "A son's YouTube plea for Avastin" (2010)

Josh Turnage is your typical teenager, trying to discover what he wants to do in college and with his life. But a 7-minute, 41-second YouTube video he produced about his mother's fight with breast cancer may thrust him into a debate between drug makers and the agency that regulates them.

• "New device could knock out old dialysis technology" (2011)

Shuvo Roy has all the makings for the world's first implantable artificial kidney, thanks to nanotechnology and a web of nationwide collaborations.

All he needs now is $20 million.