When the State Department Paid a Visit to SDEE 

By Amy Duncan, Goldfish Consulting, Inc. 

With immigration and other foreign policy matters still up in the air, the United States Department of State continues to pursue enduring matters such as technology, innovation, and world economic growth. Through its Foreign Press Centers, the State Department provides foreign-based journalists with services to help them report on American society, politics, and culture. They recently hosted 25 foreign journalists on their American Innovation and Entrepreneurship Reporting Tour that included a visit with San Diego Entrepreneurship Exchange (SDEE) on May 2, 2017.

SDEE member Crinetics Pharmaceuticals  was awarded a $2.7MM fast-track Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop somatostatin receptor agonist drugs targeting chronic pain.

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals receives a $1.5MM Phase II SBIR grant to develop orally-available, small molecule kisspeptin receptor antagonists to treat polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and other women’s health disorders.