OBI Client Company Wins
- Our press release about our FDA Breakthrough Status was picked up by several industry publications (MassDevice, Femtech Insider, and Medtech Dive).
- We were featured on an OSHU Future of Femtech panel.
- We were also interviewed as part of Accenture’s Women in Life Sciences program.
- We attended InsureTech Connect in Las Vegas, sponsored by the Global Insurance Accelerator, and had many wonderful calls with customers and investors alike. Notable conversations occurred with Unum, Northwestern Mutual, MS&AD, Ethos Life, Assurity, and more.
- Networking at the event resulted in Candice Smith being asked to speak at the Society of Actuaries ElderTech Summit in December and to be interviewed for an upcoming book focused on the future of insurance. Additionally, 2 podcasts featuring Caregiven were released last month: Woman to Woman Podcast and The Heart of Hospice.
- We successfully completed Session #1 of the Creative Destruction Lab – an invite only program with the goal of helping start-ups “build something massive”. Of the 20 initial companies, Caregiven was 1 of 14 asked to return for Session #2 in December.
- Gazelle was featured in an NIH article: Future of medicine: Lab-on-a-chip devices starting to make an impact.
- A clinical study featuring Gazelle’s sickle cell disease test was featured in Frontiers in Medicine. The researchers found that Gazelle’s speed, accuracy and ease-of-use made it ideal for use in low-resource settings with a high prevalence of the disease.
- We were competitively selected for the mHUB MedTech Incubator in Chicago.
- Izon Science is excited to announce the release of our Gen 2 qEV SEC columns as well as our new column size, the qEV1.
- Izon is confident these columns will perform better in nearly all performance metrics important to the extracellular vesicle community including higher total EV yields, lower levels of contaminating proteins, and higher EV purity as measured by # of EVs/ug of protein when compared to our legacy columns.
- Master Service Agreement (MSA) signed with Flare Therapeutics, Atavistik, and IDEAYA Biosciences for Cryo-EM services.
Congratulations on all of your achievements!
OBI’s Mentor of the Month:
Tanya Leavy
Tanya Leavy, JD, is one of our wonderful volunteer mentors. She is experienced in the field of intellectual property law, with a specialty in patent law, practicing in the patent space for over a decade. Her law degree is from the Fordham Law school.
Tanya also has a Ph.D. in chemical biology, with a specialty in organic chemistry, from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked with a number of startup companies in the biotechnology area to provide strategic patent guidance to help them to develop and protect their innovations.
Her colleagues describe Tanya as hardworking, with attention to detail, a collaborative work style, and a creative problem solver.
Thank you, Tanya, for contributing to the success of our mentees!
Hiring or Seeking?
Post it on OBI’s Job Board
We’re excited to announce that OBI has launched a Job Board, and we’d love to list your organization’s open positions. Click here to post your open positions.
And, if you’re a job seeker and would like to have your resume reviewed by recruiters in the community, please upload your resume to the “submit resume” section of our job board.
2021 Tech Pay Data Now Available
Milliman recently released the results of the 30th annual Northwest Technology Compensation Survey featuring updated pay data on more than 200 technology positions, objectively and confidentially compiled from 92 major Northwest Technology employers. The survey results include expanded data on salary trends, turnover, benefit costs, telecommuting, sign-on bonus, hot skills, compensation program elements, and more.
- Salaries for tech roles have risen between 3-8% based on title and seniority
- Two of the top six roles at technology companies/within technology organizations are for HR leaders
- In the 25 years since the NW Tech Compensation Survey started, the entry level salary for a software engineer has gone from $35K to 76K+
To access the full survey results, click here. TAO members get a $50 discount if they use the code TAO2021.
Need an Employer Health Plan?
Beginning November 1, Oregon Bioscience Association members can request quotes for group health insurance with an effective date of January 1, 2022. The enhanced benefits include:
- Multiple-Carrier Quoting – Mercer platform will shop several well-known local and national health carriers, discuss your needs and find the best plan options.
- Low Minimum – Enrollment for as few as 2 employees.
- Easy Online Enrollment – Paperless enrollment for you and your employees.
- HR Administrative Portal – Helps you easily manage multiple carriers and plans.
This is part of the BIO Business Solutions program, which is a national buying program through BIO. Please contact Julie Black at Oregon Bio directly, for more information or to request a quote.
Medication Adherence Saves Medicare up to $46.6B
A recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) study found that medication use is improving among seniors and vulnerable beneficiary populations. Better adherence to medicines used to treat common chronic conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes is estimated to have saved the Medicare program between $27B and $46.6B in avoided health care costs between 2013 and 2018.
Events
Join Us For These Upcoming OBI Events
Virtual Lunch & Learn: The Three Sectors
Where Digital is Transforming Patient Care
November 17, 2021
12:00-1:00 PM
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Virtual Lunch & Learn: Utilizing Value Assessments
to Determine Clinical & Cost Effectiveness
December 1, 2021
12:00-1:00 PM
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Accelerate Biotech + Digital Health
Virtual Happy Hour
December 9, 2021
5:00-6:30 PM
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Other Great Community Events
Keiretsu Forum Investor Capital Expo
November 10-11 and 17-18, 2021
Registration details here
Biotech Summit 2021
Biomarker and the Promise of Precision Medicine
November 12, 2021
1:30-3:30 PM
Register here
Partners in Diversity Say Hey!~Virtual
November 16, 2021
4:30-6:30 PM
Register here
Technology Association of Oregon:
Health Tech Summit
November 15-16, 2021
8:30 AM-1:00 PM
More information here
Oregon Entrepreneurs Network:
OEN Awards 2021 – FUTUREPROOF
November 18, 2021
5:00-8:00 PM
More information here