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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 ...
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.
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 technique is still in practice today, almost 80 years later. In 1945, Dr. Grifols opened the world's first plasma donation center ...
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 ...
California Cryobank is a sperm bank in California, United States, one of the two biggest in the world. There are offices in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York. According to the company in 2018, they had about 600 donors and 75,000 registered live births since 1977. [1] Since 2018, they no longer accept anonymous ...
California Bank & Trust. California Bank & Trust (CB&T) is a full-service bank specializing in consumer, commercial and wealth management services headquartered in San Diego, California. With more than 80 branches located across California and assets totaling about $91 billion, CB&T is a subsidiary of Zions Bancorporation, one of the nation's ...
Organ procurement organization. In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United States, [1] each responsible for organ procurement in a specific ...
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.