Published on February 5, 2010 at 5:14 AM
CHI-California Healthcare Institute, a non-profit public policy research
organization, honored Assembly Members Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) and
Nathan Fletcher (R-San Diego) with the CHI Advancing California
Biomedical Research and Innovation Award at a biomedical industry dinner
on Feb. 2 in Sacramento. Hill is chairman of the Assembly Select
Committee on Biotechnology, and Fletcher is vice chairman of the
Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology.
“CHI would like to recognize their commitment to
fostering the development, commercialization and market for new medical
products and maintaining a highly skilled workforce in California.”
“Both Jerry Hill and Nathan Fletcher have actively partnered with the
California biomedical industry to promote state policies that improve
the business climate in California,” said David Gollaher, Ph.D., CHI’s
president and CEO. “CHI would like to recognize their commitment to
fostering the development, commercialization and market for new medical
products and maintaining a highly skilled workforce in California.”
CHI honored Hill and Fletcher at a dinner to launch the California
Biomedical industry 2010 Report, released by CHI and
PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to the report, the biomedical industry
is one of the most recession-resilient sectors in California’s hard-hit
economy and a critical driver of innovation, job growth and revenues
that will help lead the state to economic recovery. California’s
biomedical industry directly employs 274,000 people, representing one in
six of the 1.6 million biomedical jobs in the United States.
SOURCE California Healthcare Institute, Inc.