CHI's Corporate Timeline
1992 - CHI was established with 8 employees
1993
- 12 conferences were produced
- First PCR meeting
- Dr. Jonas Salk presented at the First Vaccine Meeting
1994
- Launched corporate website
- First High Throughput Screening Meeting
- First Molecular Diversity Meeting
- First Human Genome Meeting
1995
- 40 conferences were produced
- First Bioinformatics Meeting
- First Biomarkers and Cancer Prognostics Meeting
- First Proteomics Meeting
- First Cancer Vaccines Meeting
- First Genetic Screening & Diagnostics Meeting
1996
- First Gene Quantification Meeting
- First Combinatorial Chemistry Meeting in JAPAN
- 1997 First Cheminformatics Meeting
- First DNA Forensics Meeting
- First Beyond Humane Genome Meeting
- Renowed professor Iam Wilmut presented at Veterinary
Molecular Biology meeting right after announcing Dolly the cloned sheep
- Dr. Henry Lee presented at DNA Forensics
1998
- First Genetic Variations Meeting
- First Pharmacogenomics Meeting
1999
- 55 conferences were produced
- First In Silico Biology Meeting
- First Lab Chips & Microarrays Meeting in EUROPE
- Launch of CHI's Marketing Services Division
- Launch of CHI Life Science Reports
2000
- 48 conferences were produced
- First Chemical Genomics Meeting
- First Microarray Data Analysis Meeting
- First Recombinant Antibodies Therapeutics Meeting
- Launch of CHI's monthly Genome Link e-newsletter
2001
- First Genomic Samples Preparation Meeting
- First Structure Based Drug Design Meeting
- Launch of CHI's Pharmaceutical Strategy Series (PSS)
- Launch of Peptalk: The Protein Information Week
2002
- First Metabolic Profiling Meeting
- First Protein & Peptalk Meeting
- First Protein Chips Meeting
- First Target Validation Meeting
- First Biodefense Meeting
- Launch of World Pharmaceutical Congress
2003
- First Predictive ADME Meeting
- First RNAI Interference Meeting
- Sydney Brenner keynote at MMTC
2004
- First High Content Analysis Meeting
- First Safety & Toxicity Biomarkers Meeting
- Launched PEGS
- Launched Biomarker World Congress
- Launched Discovery on Target
2005
- First Bridging Pharma & IT meeting
- First Stem Cells Congress
- Launched Cellutions Summit
2006
- 90+ conferences were produced
- Launched PharmaWeek CHI's weekly e-newsletter
- Acquired BioIT World publications and Expo
- Corporate headquarters moved from Newton to Needham
- First Translational Medicine Meeting
- First Drug Development Meeting about CHINA
- First Tissue Microarrays Meeting
- First Next-Generation Sequencing meeting
- Ray Kurzweil keynote at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo
2007
- 100+ conferences will be produced
- Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference achieves record attendance
- Launched Insight Pharma Reports
- Announced Cambridge Meeting Planners
- Dr. David J. Galas Keynote Presenter at Beyond Genome
- David E. Shaw keynote at Bio-IT World C+E
- Launched Life Science Webcasts
- Announced Cambridge Healthtech Media Group
2008
- Launched new integrated website offer access to all CHI properties
- Acquisition of Barnett International
2011