Academic research
Academic research from California’s universities and public and private research centers fosters the scientific exploration, which leads to discoveries that frequently enter the commercial biomedical industry through technology transfer. Such transactions can include contract research, licensing agreements and spin-off companies.
Biopharmaceuticals
Biopharmaceuticals includes companies whose biologics or bioengineered products are created by altering or replicating proteins (including antibodies) or nucleic acids (DNA, RNA or antisense oligonucleotides) and are used for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. This industry sector also includes companies that develop small-molecule drugs to be manufactured from chemical compounds.
Diagnostics
Diagnostics includes companies that focus on technologies that analyze biologic samples for medical purposes. Examples include magnetic resonance imaging scanners in hospitals, tests used to monitor the safety of the blood supply and over-the-counter products including pregnancy tests. The diagnostics sector is also a key component in the biomedical research and includes reagents, cell analysis instruments and every imaginable instrument vital to science.
Medical Devices
The medical device sector encompasses all mechanical means for improving or diagnosing human health and mobility. Medical devices can be further sorted into two general categories instruments, which includes scalpels, lasers, and heart monitors, and implants, which includes artificial hips or heart valves or products that are surgically placed in a patient’s body to perform a function that the body cannot provide or adequately perform for itself.
Laboratory services
Laboratories that test patient or research samples use highly technical, precisely calibrated and strictly regulated equipment and procedures to ensure accurate results.
Wholesale trade
Managing the import, export and exchange of pharmaceutical, medical devices, diagnostics and research regents and other supplies, wholesale trade companies are a vital segment to the shipment of products in the California’s biomedical industry.