Life sciences and health care innovation plays a vital role in Salt Lake County’s economy, supporting employment, generating earnings, and boosting GDP. Companies in this sector focus on advancing medical treatments, personalized medicine, and health care delivery systems to address health challenges and improve patient outcomes.

The 2024 Biosphere Magazine features Profiles in Innovation highlighting some of the incredible innovations occurring in Utah’s life sciences industry, including Blackrock Neurotech’s brain computer interface, Aviva’s catheter that is changing components of healthcare delivery, and more.

The program for the 2024 Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneur & Investor Life Sciences Summit, including the agenda, sponsors, exhibitors.

Held on November 9, 2023, The 2023 Utah Life Sciences Summit featured presentations and panels including life sciences leaders from Utah and around the country.

Utah’s life sciences and health care innovation industry creates substantial economic impacts across the state.

The annual report on Utah’s Life Sciences industry.

This fact sheet represents the Utah-specific supplement to the national CSBI/TEConomy Life Sciences Workforce Trends report and presents summary information on industry job postings for Utah.

The U.S. life sciences workforce is a constantly shifting target—continuously evolving to meet the demands of a rapidly growing and highly innovative, science- and technology-driven industry.

The 2023 Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneur & Investor Life Sciences featured a pitch competition, company showcase and numerous presentations and panels to help our life sciences starts up connect with sources of capital. Check out the program to see the line up and the bios on all of the speakers. 

The 2023 update to the prior Kem C. Gardner report demonstrates how favorably Utah’s life sciences industry compares to the rest of the nation.

The 2022 BioHive Summit was the biggest yet.

Utah highlights from the 2022 TEConomy report.

The 2022 TEConomy/BIO report examines the bioscience industry’s impact on the national economy and provides state specific data.

The annual publication highlighting Utah’s life sciences industry.

The annual Entrepreneur & Investor Summit is the premier event for investment in Utah’s life sciences companies. This document contains the program of the 2022 Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneur & Investor Summit, including speaker bios, overview of pitch companies and more.

Each year, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are responsible for groundbreaking discoveries and innovations that change the trajectory of disease treatment in the United States and around the world. Even before discoveries are made, however, those same NIH research grants are fueling America’s economy by fueling economic activity and job creation […]

This report investigates recent investment into antibacterial innovation and the current clinical pipeline that will help bridge the gaps in the antibacterial armamentarium.

On behalf of BioUtah and Biohive, we welcome you to the Biohive Summit. This is the 12th year we have gathered the Utah life sciences industry. For the past eleven years you have known the event as the Utah Life Sciences Summit. At our Summit last year
we launched our Biohive initiative, an effort to brand, build and bring the industry together. Consistent with that branding effort we have changed the name of the Utah Life Sciences Summit to the Biohive Summit. No other event better symbolizes our desire
to brand, build and bring the industry together.

Welcome to BioUtah’s 2021 Utah Life Sciences Magazine. You’ll notice that our annual publication has a new name, Biosphere. The new name complements this year’s theme, “The Rise of the BioHive” and reflects a new phase of opportunity, growth and visibility for Utah’s vibrant life sciences industry. Biosphere will help carry that message.

We often joke that Utah’s life sciences sector – one of the fastest growing in the nation – flies beneath the radar. But that’s changing with BioHive— a bold new initiative, driven by BioUtah, to tell the story of the state’s life sciences industry and raise its profile on the local, national and global stage.

Utah’s mature life sciences industry continues to experience strong growth relative to nationwide trends, even during recessions.

Newly released data show that employment trends the Gardner Institute first identified through 2017 persisted into the pandemic.

Utah’s mature life sciences industry continues to experience strong growth relative to nationwide trends, even during recessions.

A 2021 statistical update on the contributions of the industry to national and state economic conditions

In this guide, you will find the steps, tips and resources you need to start a business in Utah’s capital city.

The life sciences industry has been asked to play the lead role in delivering innovative solutions to the world’s pandemic challenges; but like other sectors, is not insulated from these disruptive societal and workplace impacts.

This report provides data and information to help state and community leaders make progress in their equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.

BIO’s 2020 Fact Sheet for all 50 states.

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities Index (BPC) provides a means for comparing metro areas’ recent performance.

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities Index (BPC) provides a means for comparing metro areas’ recent performance.

On behalf of BioUtah and the University of Utah’s Partners for Innovation, Venture, Outreach and Technology (PIVOT) Center, we welcome you to the 6th annual Entrepreneur & Investor Summit. This conference was originally established to highlight Utah’ life sciences companies and to bring together companies seeking investment and investors seeking to invest. We also feature programming designed to help foster the entrepreneurial spirit and educate on practical applications of business development.

The global life sciences industry has been on the rise, growing more rapidly than ever over the past decade; its trajectory only strengthened throughout 2020 and going into 2021.

2020 has seen the rapid progression of the COVID-19 global pandemic caused by the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.1. While this global health emergency is alarming and tragic, a strong public health response, combined with smart science and innovative solutions, will enable us to win the fight.

This report highlights the imperative for optimizing three health care innovation ecosystem elements—infrastructure, incentives and culture—to advance impactful health care innovation in the state of Utah.

This report offers a high-level overview focused mainly on the pharmaceutical industry, related capital events including investments in biotech and medtech companies, FDI flows, the biggest players in the field, and the key trends in life sciences.

This report highlights the imperative for optimizing three health care innovation ecosystem elements— infrastructure, incentives and culture—to advance impactful health care innovation in the state of Utah.

The program from the 2020 Utah Life Sciences Summit held November 2020. The Summit featured panels on early stage investing, political landscape after the election, and the state of innovation in Utah. Expert presenters on Inclusion and Diversity, employment law related to COVID-19 and the state of the industry are also scheduled to speak.

This year’s theme, Taking on COVID-19, highlights the exceptional efforts of Utah’s life sciences industry to combat the virus, protect public health, and mitigate damage to the economy.

Our cover story on BioFire Diagnostics takes an in-depth look at how this Utah company has revolutionized infectious disease diagnostics and is now using their technology to respond to the pandemic. Inside, you’ll also see how other life sciences companies in the state are making a difference – from testing supplies and diagnostics, to therapeutics and PPE – they’ve
stepped up.

Utah boasts the most diverse economy in the nation, with strengths in Tech, Engineering, Manufacturing and Distribution.

The life sciences industry supports health care quality in Utah and represents a highly productive, fast-growing cross-section of the state’s economy.

BioUtah and the Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization at the University of Utah (TVC), produced the fifth annual Entrepreneur & Investor Life Science Summit. This conference was originally established to highlight Utah’s life sciences companies, and to bring together companies seeking investment and investors seeking to invest.

On behalf of BioUtah, I welcome you to the 10th annual Utah Life Sciences Summit! Job growth in Utah’s life sciences industry has, on average, increased faster than in any other state in the country since 2012. That growth is reflected in the increasing interest in this Summit by attendees, presenters and sponsors.

We have a broad, distinguished lineup of speakers and panels designed to help life sciences companies address current challenges within our industry, understand the regulatory environment in which we operate, and policy trends that could impact our future. We are fortunate to have Dr. Jeff Shuren, Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, participate by live video feed. We are also privileged to have Rich McKeown, co-founder/chair of Leavitt Partners, and former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Mike Leavitt as our luncheon keynote speaker.

That the State of Utah’s economy has been on a rapid rise over the last decade is not new news.

Welcome to the second annual BioUtah Life Sciences Magazine. This year’s theme — This is the Place – For Life Sciences — says it all. Consistently ranked among the top states for business, Utah boasts one of the fastest growing life sciences industries in the nation. The industry, which includes medical device manufacturing, diagnostics, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, is also among the fastest growing economic sectors in the state.

Focus on Merit Medical, a med device power house. Also includes features on PolarityTE, Stryker and several Utah life sciences start ups.

On behalf of BioUtah and the Technology and Venture Commercialization office of the University of Utah (TVC), we welcome you to the 4th annual Entrepreneur & Investor Summit. This conference was originally established to highlight Utah’s life sciences companies and to bring together companies seeking investment and investors seeking to invest. We also feature programming designed to help foster the entrepreneurial spirit and educate on practical applications of business development.

Welcome to Utah Life Sciences Magazine, the first in a series of special publications that take an in-depth look at the state’s life sciences industry.

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and BioUtah, the trade association for life sciences companies in the state, commissioned the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute to analyze the role of the life sciences industry in Utah’s economy.

This is BioUtah’s report on the life sciences industry in Utah.

On behalf of BioUtah and the Technology and Venture Commercialization office of the University of Utah (TVC), we welcome you to the 3rd annual Entrepreneur & Investor Summit. This conference was originally established to highlight Utah’ life sciences companies and to bring together companies seeking investment and investors seeking to invest. We also feature programming designed to help foster the entrepreneurial spirit and educate on practical applications of business development.

The 2020 Economic Report to the Governor is the 32nd publication in this series. Through the last three decades, the Economic Report to the Governor has served as the preeminent source for data, research, and analysis about the Utah economy.

This report highlights the imperative for optimizing three health care innovation ecosystem elements— infrastructure, incentives and culture—to advance impactful health care innovation in the state of Utah. In addition to alignment of essential ecosystem elements, key measures have been identified that can be tracked to create a clear path to impact on reducing costs, improving […]

Cities drive economic growth nationwide. They are the primary locations where businesses create new jobs and workers earn higher wages, keeping the United States competitive in the global economy. However, metro areas are also incredibly diverse. Each has unique characteristics generated through a combination of investment and policy choices that influence the community’s economic outcomes. […]

The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive update to medical technology industry statistics in order to quantify its impact on the U.S. economy. By leveraging data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the following tables and figures yield a complete […]