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