On December 3rd, our BCLA community gathered at Q’s Billiard Club for our Annual Holiday Mixer, a warm, joyful, and genuinely fun night that brought together the people who shaped this year’s momentum in LA biotech. The room filled quickly, and from the very beginning, there was an infectious energy: laughter over shared plates of food, spontaneous conversations between students, scientists, and industry professionals, and new connections forming around the pool tables. One o

On November 8th, 2025, BCLA’s 11th Annual Biotech Summit, Biotech 2030: Charting the Future of Work, Talent, and Technology, brought together an energizing community of scientists, founders, policy leaders, and students at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. From morning coffee networking to the closing hour, the summit showcased the optimism and momentum powering Southern California’s growing biotech ecosystem. The summit opened with a keynote from Dino Di Carlo

On Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Biotech Connection Los Angeles (BCLA) and LA BioSpace co-hosted Breaking Barriers: Leveraging Biotech for Upward Mobility  as part of LA Tech Week 2025. The event brought together students, educators, entrepreneurs, and scientists from across Los Angeles for a vibrant evening of insight, storytelling, and connection, exploring how biotechnology can drive opportunity, equity, and upward mobility within our city’s diverse communities. The evening