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(Portland, Ore. – Oct. 27, 2021)   –  Scores of jobs are open in the growing life science and biotech sectors in Oregon and southwest Washington and workers are sought for positions in research and development, engineering, analysis, chemistry, quality assurance/compliance, manufacturing, operations, communications, building and design and more.

The Oregon Bioscience Association has assembled large, small and medium organizations as part of the upcoming virtual career match event on Nov. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Participating […]

Click here to read it online. In this issue:

Why membership matters: Health plans now available to Oregon Bio members through Mercer Marketplace and BIO Business Solutions
Meet your new BFFs: New companies join Oregon Bio
Absci announces new drug discovery and development partner
Save the date: Nov. 10 – Oregon Bio Fall Career Fair
In review: September’s Makers & [bio] Markers visit with the ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum and upcoming sessions
Oregon Bio Women: Organizing effort launched and Book Club underway
Present your company at BIO […]

If a local, seasoned biotech pro is asked to name a successful and growing biomedical university training program, odds are George Fox University’s emerging biomed engineering program wouldn’t come up in the conversation. Not yet anyway.

“That’s because we’ve somehow remained one of the region’s best kept secrets,” responds Robert F. Harder, Ph.D., Executive Dean of Industrial Enterprise and the founding Dean of Engineering at #ORBioMember George Fox University. Harder – who today oversees one of the area’s most […]

Weekly Update – 8-16-2021

In this issue (to read it now online, click on https://conta.cc/37P68o0):

Lazarus 3D: Test drives for surgeons
Acumen: How to –> KPIs and executive compensation
Twist Bioscience: Less means far more
Pacific Hills Farms: Right crop in the right place
Acumed: A great place to work

ICYMI (highlights of key news/updates):

Free: Mini Bio Pro lunch and learn – August 17
New Program: Makers & [bio] Markers – August 19
Your news: Inquiring minds want to know
For your business: Bio Business Solutions

Check out all the news and more updates in the OR Bio Weekly Update here. In this issue:

   Now on the Nasdaq: Strength for NW biotech region
   Take a test drive of this mini: BioPro in bite-size pieces
   New prestigious research team launched:New alliance studies peak human performance
   Quotable quote: New $500-million, next-phase science campus
    […]

Karen Anderson of #ORBiomember Acumen Executive Search contributed this article to share thought leadership about how in a tight bioscience market, can we position our companies and organizations to attract top talent.

The pandemic forced us to alter our focus to what is most important: namely family, human connection, good health, flexible work arrangements, and most importantly, the “why.”  Needs and criteria of top talent have changed dramatically. 

A recent […]

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Check out all the news, the new BioPro class catalogue and more updates in the OR Bio Weekly Update here, including:

– BIO Digital 2021 is on!

– Wow: Sparrow Pharmaceuticals officially launches with $50 million Series A

– Kudos: OHSU plays key role in study of blood test to detect cancer

– Wow, redux: Biogen gets FDA approval for Alzheimer’s Rx

– Member news: Cascade Chemistry expands, acquired by Aceto

– Partner […]

May 17, 2021 — Oregon Bio is excited to introduce you to Twist Bioscience, a California, Bay-Area company that announced late last year they are opening up their state-of-the-art manufacturing and processing facility just south of Portland. And bringing 400 jobs.

We met with Twist’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Angela Bitting, to ask a few questions and see how the plans are shaping up.

OR Bio:  […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Thursday, May 13, 2021

(Portland, Ore.) – The industry is hiring as fast as it can.

The bioscience industry provides direct and indirect employment of 47,000 jobs in Oregon, showing substantial growth in the past decade. With large company expansions such as Genentech’s Hillsboro Individualized Therapies, Micro Systems Engineering’s upcoming Lake Oswego-area advanced automated manufacturing expansion and the arrival of Twist Bioscience’s ‘Factory of the Future’ soon breaking ground in Wilsonville, a surge of open jobs has bio […]

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Event: Finding and working with angel funders in life sciences – BREX event – 5/4

Event: Cinco de Bio Roundtable: Inclusive Mentoring – 5/5

Event: Jobs galore can be found at Oregon Bio Virtual Career Fair: Sign up now to meet your match – 5/20

Survey: Take the 2021 Life Sciences Total Rewards Survey by 5/14

News: Elevate Capital announces financing from Bank of America

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