Orange County, CA rich and tenured history within life sciences and medical device technology spans more than 60 years and hundreds of companies all with a common goal: improving patients lives.
1896
Pacific Santiarium (today known as University of California, Irvine School of Medicine) founded in Anaheim
1931
Don Baxter Laboratories Forms in Los Angeles
1935
National Technical Laboratories formed (today known as Beckman Instruments)
1950
American Hospital Supply acquires Don Baxter Labs creating McGaw Laboratories
Allergan formed in Los Angeles
1958
Cooper Tinsley Laboratories formed
Coulter Corp formed
1960
1st heart valve is placed in a patient thanks to Miles ‘Lowell’ Edwards
Allergan moves to Santa Ana, CA
1961
Edwards Laboratories is formed in Santa Ana, CA
1964
Shiley Laboratories is formed
1964-66
University of California, Irvine campus is opened
1966
Edwards acquired by American Hospital Supply forming American Edwards
1970
Glidwell formed
1976
Pfizer acquires Shiley
1985
American Edwards acquired by Baxter Int.
1987
Masimo formed
1987
Applied Medical formed
1989
Alcon acquires CooperVision Surgical
1990
Advanced Sterilization Products formed under Ethicon Johnson&Johnson
1995
Irvine Biomedical (IBI) formed
FDA moves Los Angeles office to Irvine
1996
Micro Therapeutics formed
1997
Microvention formed
McGaw Labs acquired by Braun Melsungen AG; Beckman/Coulter merger
2000
Edwards Lifescience spun off as independent
2002
Allergan’s ophthalmic surgical and contact lens business spun off to create AMO
2004
St. Jude Medical acquires IBI
2006
- Danaher acquires Sybron
- Terumo acquires Microvention
2009
DeviceAlliance formed
2011
Danaher acquires Beckman
2015
Medtronic acquires Covidien for $50B
2017
Johnson & Johnson acquires AMO
2019
Actavis acquires Allergan
The Fine Print: Data resources for timeline construction include company websites, Yahoo Finance and Forbes. Timeline items in ‘red‘ indicate events which occurred outside of Orange County, CA early on which led to significant events in Orange County, CA medtech formation.
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