Bend’s bioscience industry growing up
Boosters want to see incubator at OSU-Cascades
By Kathleen McLaughlin / The Bulletin
Published Jun 5, 2016 at 12:01AM
The people who started Central Oregon’s first two bioscience companies were drawn by the outdoors, rather than the presence of a research institution.
And perhaps because of that, Bend Research Inc. and Grace Bio-Labs lacked nearby industry peers in their early years.
Bend Research founders Harry Lonsdale and Richard Baker arrived in Tumalo in the mid-1970s. Read more…