Welcome to the Oregon Bioscience Association
Creating opportunity through Community, Collaboration and Commercialization
The Oregon Bioscience Association is at the center of Oregon’s growing biotechnology industry cluster. We provide workforce development, advocacy, and business services for the state’s biotechnology companies, research institutions, and service providers.
Oregon’s bioscience industry has over 600 companies and research institutions. It is ready to help power the state’s economic future through world-class research and development, medical devices, medical diagnostics, human and animal therapeutics, pharmaceuticals, reagents, research services, bio-agriculture, bio-fuels, and medical software. Join us and see how you fit into the ecosystem.
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...
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OBA Profile: Welch Allyn
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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New OBA Members
The Oregon Bioscience Association continues to grow! See who’s new…
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Oregon Bio Member News
See the latest news from our member companies…
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