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Big Picture, Big Rewards – David Johnson, Ph.D., locks up his bicycle after a harrowing ride navigating hills and traffic to make his way to South San Francisco, Calif., the birthplace of biotechnology. It’s how he gets to and from work at GigaGen, a company he founded in 2010 to translate his research in single cell […]

There are numerous ways to rank a company as “the best place to work.” Some listings rank companies by pay, others by how “happy and engaged” the workforce is, others by culture and benefits. Some rankings use metrics while others are based on employee surveys. Here’s a look at six San Francisco Bay Area life […]

“What traditions do you want to follow for your baby?” asked the midwife leading our prenatal education group. As we went around the circle of parents-to-be, most couples discussed holiday traditions, camping trips, and weekend routines. When it was my turn to share, I thought about the pseudoscience that had been espoused in this group […]

GigaGen Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody therapies, today announced the publication of a study showing how it adapted its Surge™ antibody discovery and engineering platform to improve selection of OX40 agonists. The study has been published online in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Antibodies, as part of the special issue Antibody Repertoire Mining for […]

GigaGen Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody therapies, today announced that Erica Stone, Ph.D., has joined the company as director, immuno-oncology. “We welcome award-winning immunologist Dr. Stone to the GigaGen team,” said Dave Johnson, Ph.D., CEO of GigaGen. “Dr. Stone brings with her a deep understanding of the tumor microenvironment and checkpoint inhibitors that […]

GigaGen Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody therapies, today announced that David Johnson, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, will present on the development of highly diverse, functional antibodies for infectious disease utilizing Surge technology at the 10th Annual Protein & Antibody Engineering Summit (PEGS) in Europe. Dr. Johnson’s invited podium presentation is titled […]

“Scrappy.” That’s a one-word summation of GigaGen’s approach to both the business and science of biotech. “When you’re a new company, you have to be scrappy and clever. When I founded GigaGen in 2011, I didn’t have a big war chest of money, so I had to find a way to be competitive. That’s central […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a household name in the drug discovery and development industry. Among the NIH’s many recipients is South San Francisco, Calif.-based GigaGen, a biotherapeutics company. GigaGen’s CEO, Dr. Dave Johnson, took some time to talk with us about how NIH funding and participation in the I-Corps commercialization program helped […]

Antibodies have been used since the late 1980s as therapies to treat serious diseases, and demand is soaring to new heights today. However, conventional antibody drug discovery technologies are labor-intensive and slow. Pharmaceutical companies select drug candidates from just a small fraction of the antibodies that exist in a natural immune repertoire and have limited […]

GigaGen Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody therapies, today announced that David Johnson, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, will present on the discovery of unique and functional antibodies utilizing Surge technology at the 14th Annual PEGS Summit. Dr. Johnson’s invited podium presentation is titled “Discovery of High-Affinity Human PD-1 and LAG-3 Antibodies Using […]