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Thought Leadership: How do you position your company to attract top leadership talent?
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 […]
News: BIO Digital ’21, company kudos, events and more –>6/10/2021
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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 […]
Meet Twist Bioscience and Find Out Why They’re Coming to Oregon
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: […]
News: Hiring surge happening in Oregon’s life science and biotech sectors – Career match event to link seekers with area’s largest industry firms
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 […]
Oregon Bio Weekly Newsletter –> 4-26-2021
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Check out all the news and updates in this week’s newsletter – click here.
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
News: […]
Oregon Bio Weekly Newsletter- –> 4-7-2021
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Learn more about:
How to apply for BIO’s Startup Stadium
Advocacy Alert: Stop House Resolution 3
My vantage point: Violence against Asian Americans means ‘they must speak up’
Supply chain issues? BIO issues information and help for companies with Defense Act-related supply chain challenges
#Spotlight: Meet new #ORBioMember Laboratory Equipment Company
Industry talk: Happening now on Oregon Bio’s LinkedIn feed – CB Richard Ellis names Portland in newly released ‘Leading Life […]
We’re Hiring: Marketing and Projects Coordinator
Marketing and Projects Coordinator (full-time)
The Marketing and Projects Coordinator will be responsible for executing and tracking marketing activities for a variety of projects and events, provide project management and administrative support for the organization. In addition, a substantial level of planning, project management and administrative coordination responsibility exists, requiring frequent and routine interaction with Oregon Bio members and community stakeholders. The Marketing and Projects Coordinator will work closely with the Executive Director, the Oregon Bio team and its contractors. Many […]
Measuring impacts on the life sciences workforce
2020 was a year like no other in biotech and the life sciences, and the need for a pivot-worthy workforce has never been more needed. While physicians and care providers serve diligently as responders in critical patient care delivery, behind them are myriad researchers and technologists who work to conquer the virus. In our industry, clinicians and researchers created, tested and applied safety and efficacy of vaccines and therapies. Data scientists studied epidemiology around the world and here in the […]
Genentech poised to complete Hillsboro expansion
By Elizabeth Hayes – Staff Reporter, Portland Business Journal, 2/9/2021
Genentech’s $175 million expansion in Hillsboro is almost complete.
The biotech giant is getting ready to open a 130,000-square-foot expansion in Hillsboro, where it already has a major operation, by the end of the first quarter.
Based in south San Francisco, Genentech’s Technical Operations facility in Hillsboro has “played a key role in the filling, packaging and distribution of Genentech […]
Oregon Bioscience Association appoints 2021 leadership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – – February 8, 2021
(Portland, Ore.) – Dan Snyder, MBA, local medical diagnostics corporate executive, will lead 2021 Oregon Bioscience Association (Oregon Bio)’s board of directors.
With Snyder, Executive Committee members include Sandra Shotwell, Ph.D., co-founder at Elex Biotech, LLC; Tim Brown, site head and general manager at Genentech; Brenna Rauw, Managing Director at 12Bridge; and Michael Phillips, attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, as general counsel.