Oregon Bioscience Association
With over 600 companies and research institutions Oregon’s bioscience industry is a robust economic engine. Oregon’s bioscience industry 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 and bio-fuels as well as medical software.
Did you know?
The Oregon Bioscience community:
- Directly contributed over $3.5 billion to Oregon’s economy
- Directly employed over 13,000 Biotech workers
- Paid an average wage of over $55,000 to Bio workers
- Spent over $459,900,000 on Bioscience Research, (most federal grant funding)
- Has over 600 private biotech companies and research institutions
- Has a total economic impact of over $6 billion and 37,000 jobs
- Grew over 32% between 2002 and 2007
- And it’s still growing…
The largest biotech subgroups include medical devices, sponsored life science research, diagnostics, research services, biotechnology and biological product manufacturing. The commercial enterprises are made up of medical devices, Pharma and diagnostics, reagent services and equipment, software, healthcare and agriculture.
OBA is at the center of Oregon’s growing biotechnology industry cluster providing workforce development, advocacy and business services for the state’s biotechnology companies, research institutions and service providers. We create opportunity through Community, Collaboration and Commercialization.
OBA members are involved in cutting edge research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural and environmental bio technologies. Our corporate members range from entrepreneurial startups developing a first product to large multinationals. We also represent the state’s biotech research institutions, service providers to the industry and academic centers of learning.
A unified voice for the Oregon bioscience community the OBA:
- Represents the bioscience research to commercialization process
- Helps to accelerate the growth of the biosciences industry in all parts of Oregon
- Enhances the state's bioscience business and research climate
- Helps attract and retain bioscience talent and companies.
- Vigorously works to improve the quality of the bioscience workforce
- Partners with government at all levels to achieve its goals.
Join us and see how you can fit into this ecosystem.
