OBI & OTRADI JULY 2018 NEWSLETTER

We have redesigned our OBI Website to be more user-friendly and helpful. Come check out our new design!


The amazing work of OBI client company, Vir Biotechnology, was featured in a Portland Business Journal article entitled “How a $600M jolt could get OHSU’s promising AIDS vaccine to market.”


OBI Client Company Wins

NOTE: If you would like PDF versions of these articled, email us at info@otradi.org.


Join us! Registration is open for our upcoming OTRADI & OBI 10-Year Anniversary Party on September 11, 2018.

You are invited to attend OTRADI’s 10-Year Anniversary and OBI’s 5-Year Anniversary Celebration and Cruise aboard the Portland Spirit. We’re inviting the entire bio and startup entrepreneurship community, as well as legislators, partners, collaborators and supporters, to attend and celebrate 10 years of bio-research and startup accomplishments for our OTRADI/OBI community.


Great articles about developments in the Portland Innovation Quadrant (Portland IQ). Click the photos for the full stories.


OBI has an extensive BioMentor program available to provide pro bono advice and assistance to promising life science entrepreneurs across the state of Oregon. This month we are highlighting OBI BioMentor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Gordon Hoffman.

As a BioMentor, Mr. Hoffman can provide advice and assistance in the areas of business creation, investment strategies and capital sources, market-entry and growth strategies, corporate governance and advisory boards, and for companies with origins in the academic/research sector, advice and assistance in working with institutions and researchers.

Click here to learn more about our BioMentor program and to see our network of BioMentor contacts.


Join us for these OBI events in July:

 

Join us on July 5th for our monthly Accelerate Biotech & Digital Health Happy Hour at the CLSB and sponsored by OHSU’s OCTRI. Register now to attend.

The OBI and Aliat are hosting a Lunch & Learn entitled The Benefits of Outsourcing HR, Benefits, and Payroll on July 17th. Register now to attend.

Carol Pratt will be leading a Lunch & Learn entitled FDA Regulation of Digital Health Products on August 15th. Register now to attend.