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Oregon Bio on COVID-19: 11 Tips to manage and mitigate small business impact
During this time of significant disruption to local bio businesses, firms and organizations, as well as the potential global effects that are sure to be felt at all levels, Oregon Bio has researched some helpful resources and asked a few experts about short-term support to help small businesses mitigate and manage through this worldwide pandemic.
What Governor Brown’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order means for bioscience in Oregon
On March 23, Governor Brown issued Executive Order No. 20-12 expanding on her previous restrictions on business operations. We are thankful for the work Gov. Brown and the legislature are doing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. If Gov. Brown decides it is necessary to expand upon this Executive Order, we will continue to advocate for the adoption of the federal DHS/CISA list of Essential Businesses as part of any additional “Stay Home/Shelter in Place” order. The current order lists additional […]
Oregon Bio Builds Oregon and SW Washington Industry Partnering Directory
Our members have been telling us first hand of the efforts and products they are making in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, from testing kits to medical interventions. They have also asked for potential partner names to help receive vital supplies and more broadly distribute their resources.
Abcam on the Oregon trail with US acquisition
4 March, 2020 – 11:06 by Tony Quested – Cambridge life sciences influencer Abcam has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire a major detection tools business in the US. The UK company, which supplies life science tools to researchers worldwide, has bought Marker Gene Technologies, an Oregon company that has been a market leader in its field for two decades.
Voice of Academia: The Making of a Scientist, Part 2
In the last issue, we introduced you to Carlos Crespo, Dr.PH, a doctor of Public Health with Portland State University. He’s using his own cultural background to build a new approach to cultivating diversity in new scientists/researchers.
Dr. Crespo and colleagues spearheaded a 10-year NIH grant to expose emerging college students to the fields of biomedical research. His grant application arrived at NIH (National Institutes of Health) at a time when NIH wanted to examine how to […]
Oregon Bio partners with OHSU and MIT Hacking Medicine for Invent-a-thon
Want to make healthcare better? Oregon Bioscience Association is joining forces with Oregon Health and Science University and MIT Hacking Medicine to bring you the inaugural OHSU Invent-a-thon
Updated March 26 – Invent-a-thon is moving to the fall – dates coming soon.
Beaverton’s HTC completes Inventor Space Feasibility Study: Part 2
The Health Technology Collaborative recently completed its charge from Business Oregon, via a grant in the High Impact Opportunity Program (HIOP). The results of the feasibility study dovetail well with the mission of the Health Technology Collaborative, which is to accelerate the growth of health technology in Oregon by providing innovators with sector-specific prototyping technology and access to a community of experts.
The $148,000 HIOP support was granted to the HTC in January, 2019, to examine the feasibility of […]
Voice of Academia with PSU’s Dr. Carlos Crespo: The Beginning of a Scientist
We recently talked with Carlos Crespo, Dr.PH, who holds a doctorate in Public Health and works at Portland State University (PSU) as Vice Provost of Undergraduate Training in Biomedical Research, about how his life work is about creating scientists. He is our second profile on this intermittent series, Voice of Academia.
About half a decade ago, Dr. Crespo honed his observations about how industry clusters form and thrive, especially when the cluster was diverse in industry and workforce. He observed that […]
The BREX Card: The Corporate Credit Card for Life Sciences
Think you’re fully up to speed on the many discounts and program offerings through BIO’s Business Solutions? Now our sector has a tailor credit solution, the BREX Credit Card.
BREX, the corporate credit card for the Life Sciences, is designed to empower its life sciences customers to spend less time on end-of-month closes and more time focusing on what you do best: creating and supporting life-changing R&D.
Calling all Bio-Entrepreneurs
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is teaming up to present the I-Corps Bio-Entrepreneurship Workshop in San Diego June 7-10, during BIO 2020, the industry’s premier annual international event. Diverse partners are collaborating to provide this unique and intensive 3-day session, including experts from workshop partners including BIO, United Negro College Fund, National Science Foundation, Ernest E. Just Institute for the Life Sciences, AUTM, VentureWell, University of New Hampshire I-Corps, CSU I-Corps and MIT I-Corps.
“This workshop comes highly recommended […]
