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Grifols. Grifols, S.A. (Catalan: [ˈɡɾifuls]) is a Spanish multinational pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturer. Principally a producer of blood plasma –based products, a field in which it is the European leader and largest worldwide, [ 3 ][ 4 ] the company also supplies devices, instruments, and reagents for clinical testing laboratories.
Vitalant. Vitalant (formerly Blood Systems Inc.[1]) is a nonprofit organization that collects blood from volunteer donors and provides blood, blood products and services across the United States. It was founded in 1943 as the Salt River Valley Blood Bank in Phoenix, Arizona. Vitalant is the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit blood ...
Dr. José Antonio Grifols Lucas, a scientist from Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, [29] founded Laboratorios Grifols in 1940. [30] Dr. Grifols pioneered a first-of-its-kind technique called plasmapheresis, [30] where a donor's red blood cells would be returned to the donor's body almost immediately after the separation of the blood plasma. This ...
September 30, 2024 at 8:36 AM. A view of Mudd Hall at USC on March 28, 2023. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times) A new law banning legacy and donor admissions at private California universities ...
Website. unos.org. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established (42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. [5]
vaccines, blood testing. Revenue. $1.921 billion (2005) Number of employees. 5,400 (2005) Website. www.chiron.com. Chiron Corporation (/ ˈkaɪrɒn / KY-ron) [1] was an American multinational biotechnology firm founded in 1981, based in Emeryville, California, that was acquired by Novartis on April 20, 2006.
The Repository for Germinal Choice (originally named the Hermann J. Muller Repository for Germinal Choice, after Nobel laureate Hermann Joseph Muller) was a sperm bank that operated in Escondido, California from 1980 to 1999. The repository is commonly believed to have accepted only donations from recipients of the Nobel Prize, although in fact ...