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News: Oregon’s Bio Boom – ‘Pandemic ready’ industry surpasses $15b footprint creating more firms, more jobs, more investment, more discovery, more innovation
Oregon Bioscience Association released its new economic impact report (posted here) at which points to continued robust growth during the pandemic, with combined economic impacts far outpacing Oregon’s overall economy. Separately, venture capital investment in Oregon and southwest Washington health firms skyrocketed in 2021. (Portland, Ore. - June 15, 2022) – ‘New’ money flowing to Oregon’s and southwest Washington's biotech firms and life science research […]Opinion: How the vaccine has made it all over the world
This commentary, "Opinion: How the vaccine has made it all over the world," authored by Oregon Bio's 2022 Chair Dan Snyder, recently ran in the Portland Tribune. The barriers to people in developing countries getting vaccinated against Covid-19 is decidedly not supply.
Last week, Africa requested all Covid-19 vaccine donations be paused until the third or fourth quarter of this year. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said the primary […]
