Bench International

November 2022

Insight by: Mamatha Shekar Everything about shopping changed for me with the advancement of online shopping. As a busy working mom while also managing my kids' sporting lives, I couldn’t squeeze in shopping during regular store hours. The advent of online shopping changed me from a...

Insight by: Douglas P. Clark One fundamental challenge in drug discovery is the identification of molecules that bind to target proteins and produce a physiological change in the entire organism. The underlying nature of that molecular interaction remained elusive until fifty years ago, when the Nobel...

Insight by: Tracy Donegan In the current healthcare environment, the pace of change, as well as the disruptive effects caused by large retail chains and technology giants, are some of the factors causing our industry to face what McKinsey refers to as “the gathering storm”. In...

DeeDee DeMan, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer A Time Like No Other We have no historical frame of reference for where the industry is. As a company in our fifth generation, I've never seen a market as fearful as the life sciences are now. So, we...

Women business leaders who contribute significantly to San Diego’s workplaces and communities are recognized each year by the San Diego Business Journal (SDBJ)  Bench International is proud to announce that DeeDee DeMan, Bench International’s Founder & CEO was named a San Diego Business Woman of the Year by...

Insight by: Dave Whelan A few weeks ago, BioscienceLA and The Alliance for SoCal Innovation teamed up to bring together two healthcare veterans: Andy Slavitt, General Partner of Town Hall Ventures* and former CMS and COVID response leader, and Alex Azar, the 24th Secretary of the...

Insight by: Steve Martin Outsourcing has always made for heated politics, as politicians typically equate “outsourcing” with “offshoring.”  It’s hard to believe that it’s been 30 years since Ross Perot’s much ballyhooed “giant sucking sound” made for great living room drama in the 1992 presidential debates...