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OBI Client Company Wins
- Hemex Health was awarded a $150,000 SBIR grant to design and automate an affordable microchip-electrophoresis for sickle cell disease using a test cartridge that can be used in Hemex Health’s portable, easy-to-use analysis equipment.
- Sparrow Pharmaceuticals has been invited to present at the following events.
- Keiretsu Family Office Forum, 7 March in Seattle
- Angel Capital Expo, 8 March in Seattle
- Cascadia Venture Forum, 11 March in Vancouver BC
- StoneStable was awarded a $49,930 SBIR grant for stabilization of influenza vaccine by silica-coating. The company will conduct additional experiments to demonstrate efficacy of silica-coated flu vaccines that are much more stable than existing means.
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New client company, Bio Lab Analytics, joins the OBI in February!
Bio Lab Analytics, LLC, provides data management & analysis services for life science professionals and organizations. We assist clients with study design for research & quality improvement projects; statistics, biostatistics, and data analysis in R, SAS, Python, and Tableau; and SQL database design & development. Areas of expertise include clinical research, laboratory medicine, biotechnology, and plant biology.
Website: https://www.biolabanalytics.com/
Join us for these upcoming OBI and OBI-Partner events:
Partner Event: Tonkon Talks – The Story of Zoom is on March 6th from 12-1PM. Register now. Free to attend.
OBI Event: Our monthly Accelerate Bio & Digital Health Happy Hour is on March 7th at OBI/OTRADI Register now. Free to attend.
Partner Event: Angel Capital Expo Northwest is on March 8th from 7:30am – 6pm. Register now. $0-$300.
OBI Event: OBI’s Life Science & Digital Health CEO Peer-Mentoring Roundtable is on March 12th from 12-1:30PM. Register now. Free to attend.
Partner Event: Oregon Bioscience Association’s signature event Bio on the Rocks is on March 19th from 5-8:30PM. Register now. $35-$75 to attend.
OBI Event: Join us for a Lunch & Learn on Designing for Privacy and Security Compliance on March 21st from 12-1PM. Register now. Free to attend.
Partner Event: OHSU’s 2019 Commercialization Conference will be March 27-28th. Register now. $20-$125.
Partner Event: TechfestNW will be April 4-5th. Register now. $99-$275.
Partner Event: Science Talk ’19 will be April 4-5th. Register now. $125-$300.
OBI, OCTRI, and TTBD Workshop: All About the SBIR Grant Process – An Inside Perspective, will be April 12th from 9am-1pm. Apply now.
Partner Event: Oregon Science Startup Forum is on April 20th. Register now. $30-$60.