BiO Quarterly - Q3 2010
Bioscience in Oregon - News and Updates

Executive Director’s Note
John Tortorici
This month we welcome Dennis McNannay, new executive director of the OBA. Please join me in celebrating our successes to date, and take a moment to “meet” Dennis here until you can spend time with him in person...Read More

Kate McPherron
Medical device manufacturer Welch Allyn is an active champion of the Oregon Bioscience community, with strong ideas on collaboration, workforce, higher education and community involvement ...Read More

Creating Connection-2010 Annual Conference Report
Linda Barney
Whether you missed the annual conference or were there and busy networking, you won’t want to miss our recaps, complete with links to all resources mentioned...Read More

BioPro Spotlight: Biotronik
Seamus Kennedy
Biotronik and Micro Systems Engineering used BioPro Workforce Training to help employees succeed in lean manufacturing initiatives.  The result: production time is streamlined, quality is improved and manufacturing costs are measurably reduced...Read More

BiO Collaboration: RS Medical
RS Medical’s collaborations with local firms help the company respond quickly to customer needs while maintaining a lean engineering team...Read More

New Members

Companies
PacWest Medical Group

Oregon Bio In the News

• Two Companies, Two Rays of Light   – 6/19/2010
  
• Home Dialysis Plus Lands $50 million Investment, Boosting Oregon Medical Technology – 6/16/2010
  
• Life Technologies Completes Investment in Synthetic Genomics, Inc. – 6/3/2010
  
• New Grant Program Boosts Local Collaborative Research – 6/2/2010
• Bioscience Funds May Signal Uptick – 5/29/2010
  
• Bill Gates’ Cash Boosts Drug Company Schrodinger LLC – 5/23/2010
  
• Treasury Releases New Guidance For Tax Credit To Support Biomedical Research – 5/22/2010
  
• Oregon Earns a 'B' for Innovation – 5/20/2010
  
• Prostate Cancer Researcher Gets $300,000 Grant – 5/20/2010