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