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For the week of December 6, 2024, here’s what we’re reading:
- Swiss pharma giant Roche acquires Poseida for $1.5B
- Del Mar’s Kura Oncology, Japanese pharma group ink $1.16B partnership
- UC San Diego buys MOCA building for $15M arts campus
- Booz Allen, Marsh McLennan, Cox, SDG&E, Aya Healthcare named San Diego Union Tribune’s 2024 top workplaces
- San Diego Wave FC ranks #2 globally in women’s soccer attendance
- UC San Diego, Scripps Research join national effort toward whole eye transplant technology
- H.G. Fenton Company wins 28 Southern California Rental Housing Association awards
- Neighborhood House Association celebrates 110 years of community support
- MetroConnect alum KULR awarded U.S. Navy Internal Short Circuit development contract
- Maravai to acquire Italian therapeutic drug developer Officinae Bio
- Owner of Esquire’s 2024 hotel of the year Lafayette to open second hotel
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Case Study: Following WTCSD trade mission, SAN launches direct flight to Amsterdam
San Diego International Airport (SAN) has long been working to expand access to continental Europe, and during World Trade Center San Diego’s 2022 trade mission to the Netherlands, SAN leveraged the opportunity to communicate San Diego’s value proposition to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The result: A new direct flight between San Diego and Amsterdam, starting May 2025.
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Enya Castañeda
Coordinator, Investor Relations & Marketing Communications