NEW PODCAST: Join KPBS under the neon glow of the historic Les Girls Theater for Stripper Energy: Fighting Back from the Fringes.S1: It's time for Midday Edition on KPBS. San Diego is a hub for biotech. Today we're talking about the industry and new innovations. I'm Jade Hindman. Here's to conversations that keep you informed and inspired and make you think. Much like anything else , the biotech industry ebbs and flows.
S1: Well , that in mind , Jonathan , you know , our other areas seeing a similar level of job losses as San Diego. I mean we had so many biotech companies here innovating things during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic. So , you know , we would naturally start to see things scale back. S1: Yeah. Well , I mean , and as you mentioned , you've been on site for the bio conference happening downtown this week. Um , national security , though being a big topic of conversation in the hallways and , uh , on the panels. Tell me a bit more about that.
S1: So the best advice is to just keep living. Uh , I've been speaking with Jonathan Rosen of Stat News , along with San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Nataly Rocca. Thank you both for being here. Thank you.S1: Coming up , we'll look back at how the biotech industry was started in San Diego and the global innovations that were created.
S4: Yes. Well , you know , the biotech industry in San Diego is really about 50 years old. And it got its start back in the mid 1970s when two professors from UCSD , Ivo Royston and Howard Bergdorf , created a company called Hybrid Tech and Hybrid Tech , the first biotech company in San Diego , at a technology that was later developed by Lily uh to produce the PSA test for prostate cancer.
S4: And when we talk about biotech here in San Diego , we give it an even broader definition. It goes to diagnostic tools such as some of the tools , like Covid tests that Quidel developed a few years ago here. Uh , it goes to technologies to monitor glucose , such as the Dexcom glucose monitor that , you know , you see advertised on TV every day.
S1: Wow. And Mira Costa College has a pretty long history. This year the school is celebrating its 90th year. Can you tell us more about how the school got started ? Yes.
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