About Us
The Oregon Bioscience Association provides a unified voice for the Oregon bioscience community by:
- Representing the bioscience research-to-commercialization process
- Accelerating the growth of the biosciences industry in all parts of Oregon
- Enhancing the state's bioscience business and research climate
- Helping attract and retain bioscience talent and companies.
- Vigorously working to improve the quality of the bioscience workforce
- Partnering with government at all levels to achieve its goals.
Vision
Oregon Bioscience Association members will be more successful because of their involvement with the organization and the related exposure to a rich infrastructure of people, resources, support, and knowledge that are focused on the bioscience industry in Oregon.
Mission
Our mission is to promote the growth and quality of the bioscience industry in Oregon through:
- Community
- Collaboration
- Commercialization
History
The OBA was formally established in 1989 by a consortium of universities, public officials, educators and bioscience executives to cultivate a regionally synergistic climate in which to build a bioscience community. Today the OBA supports the regional bioscience community through networking, educational programs, enterprise support, advocacy, and the enhancement of research collaboration. As the collective voice for the bioscience community on behalf of Oregon’s bioscience companies, OBA is responsible for communicating the industry’s impact, issues and challenges to the public sector, educators and the general public.
As the only bioscience association in the state, OBA serves the region’s 847 life sciences companies. OBA’s 150+ members represent companies and organizations throughout Oregon that are engaged in, or supportive of, research, development and commercialization of life sciences technologies.
About the Oregon Bioscience Industry
Oregon Bioscience Association members are involved in cutting-edge research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, and environmental biotechnologies. 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.
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 biotech 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.
