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  • September 30, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience welcomes Christiaan Erik Engstrom as Chief Operating Officer and VP of Corporate Development and Finance
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  • May 20, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience announces its participation at the CDC/Emory BioShow in Atlanta, GA on May 23, 2024.
  • May 16, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience announces Todd Lewis has joined the executive management team as Chief Commercial Officer.  
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  • April 11, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience announces it’s participation, in collaboration with On-Chip Biotechnologies, at SynBioBeta 2024 on May 7 – 9, 2024 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.
  • March 10, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience announces its participation at the ISSCR ‘Stem Cells in Human Development and Disease’ Symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 4-5, 2024.
  • February 15, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience announces its participation at the Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society conference this year at Arizona State University on March 22 – 23, 2024.
  • January 13, 2024 – Thrive CEO, Thomas Farb-Horch, received the prestigious Bullpen Hall of Fame award at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
  • January 6, 2024 – Thrive Bioscience announces its participation at the Society for Lab Automation and Screening (SLAS) 2024 Conference in Boston From February 5-7 2024. Join the Thrive team at booth #681 to learn about the new features of the CellAssist.
  • December 19, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience Debuts Advanced Live Cell Imaging Software, Solving Major Problems in Cell-Based Research and Medicine – CellAssist Software Release 5.0 adds many major capabilities to the already powerful CellAssist family of live cell imagers, including accurate label-free cell counting and determining confluence levels, imaging and measuring organoids in 96- and 384-well round and flat bottom plates, the addition of quantitative phase imaging (QPI), email/text alerts to users when designated confluence levels are reached, and the ability to run CellAssist’s analytical software from remote laptops. Thrive’s implementation of QPI, combined with proprietary algorithms, enables Thrive’s superior cell counting, confluence measuring, and computed DIC imaging.
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    • October 30, 2023 – Thrive’s CEO Thomas Forest Farb-Horch was featured in Forbes for his insights on transitioning a company beyond 50 employees. His role in establishing 18 companies, including 7 unicorns, is evident in his statement for the article:
    “As a company scales, the majority of employees inevitably have narrower responsibilities and increasingly work with and through others. To reduce the impact on self-esteem and frustration levels, prepare employees far in advance—starting even during the hiring process—to understand that success, unlike in “corporations,” also means narrower responsibilities as they become increasingly important links in the chain.” -Thomas Farb-Horch, Thrive Bioscience, Inc.
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    • September 28, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience announces its conference participation at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Boston, MA From December 3-5 2023. Join the Thrive team at booth #449 to learn about the new features of the CellAssist.

    • September 08, 2023 – Thrive CEO, Thomas Forest Farb-Horch will be presenting “Good Science Needs Good Cells” at the IVYFON New York City Family Office Outlook 2023 Forum on September 12, 2023 from 2:15pm – 2:40pm.

    • August 31, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience recently became one of 200 companies worldwide to earn a coveted presentation slot at the 23rd annual New York Venture Summit. The New York-based event connects founders of the hottest venture backed, emerging and early-stage companies with an exclusive audience of venture capitalists, corporate investors, private investors, investment bankers, and strategic partners.

    • July 30, 2023 – Thrive CEO Thomas Forest Farb-Horch will be joining Don Davis PhD for the Life Science Success Podcast on August 9, 2023 at 5pm. Watch live here

    • June 18, 2023 – Thrive CEO Thomas Forest Farb-Horch was awarded 1st place in the Life Science Nation Innovator’s Pitch Challenge at RESI Boston.

    • May 31, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience’s VP of Software Engineering, Michael Moody and Director of Product Management, Christine Hanko will present – “Image Differently – A Solution For Automated Live Cell Imaging” Wednesday, June 14th at 6:40pm in the Micro Theater at the Exhibit & Poster Hall and Thursday, June 15th at 5:30pm in the Innovative Showcase room 257 on level 2 of the Convention Center. Registrants may attend in person or view virtually.

    • May 27, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience announces it’s sponsorship of, and will be exhibiting at the Global Stem Cell Event for The International Society for Stem Cell Research – ISSCR23 in Boston, June 14 – 17, 2023

    • May 24, 2023 – Thrive CEO, Thomas Forest Farb-Horch, will be presenting to a panel of investor judges Monday, June 5, as a finalist for the Life Science Nation RESI Boston June Innovator’s Pitch Challenge.

    • April 5, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience announces it will be exhibiting at the 21st Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, May 16 – 18, 2023.

    • February 28, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience’s Chief Scientific Officer, Alan Blanchard, PhD will present a talk: “Image Differently – A Solution For Automated Live Cell Imaging” at SLAS on Tuesday, Feb 28 at 2pm. This talk will feature new capabilities of the CellAssist family of products and a peak into the future of live cell imaging.

    • February 27, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience Debuts New Cell Imaging Capabilities and CellAssist Software Release 4.0 to Advance Laboratory Automation – Thrive unveiled these new capabilities at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening’s annual meeting in San Diego, February 26 – 28, 2023, and the family of products is set to be launched following the conference. Read the press release here.

    • February 23, 2023 – Thrive Bioscience welcomes their North American partner, On-Chip® Biotechnolgies, in their booth #2443 at SLAS to unveil their new Droplet Selector. The On-chip Droplet Selector is a new device that combines the separation and dispensing technologies of their microfluidic chip to specialize in the handling of droplets. It can reliably dispense one droplet per well with no breakage.

    • January 11, 2023 – Thrive CEO, Thomas Farb-Horch, speaks at the IVY Family Office Network San Francisco Family Office Outlook 2023 Forum on the topic, More and Better Data Speeds Successful Drug Discovery.

    • January 11, 2023 – Thrive CEO, Thomas Farb-Horch, speaks at the San Francisco Biotech Showcase to present on the topic, More and Better Data Speeds Successful Drug Discovery.

  • December 20, 2022 – Thrive CEO, Thomas Farb-Horch was interviewed by CEO Weekly to discuss how his past experiences with seven unicorns are being applied to Thrive Bioscience. Read the full story.
  • December 14, 2022 – Thrive Bioscience’s CEO, Thomas Farb-Horch, speaks about game changing live cell imaging to vastly improve drug discovery  at the Medinvest Oncology Investor Forum in New York City.
  • December 12, 2022 – Thrive Bioscience’s CEO, Thomas Farb-Horch, is interviewed by New York Weekly about how Thrive Bioscience is Revolutionizing the Biotech Industry with Game-Changing Solutions to Today’s Drug Development Problems.
  • November 28, 2022 – Thrive Bioscience restates its conference participation in Booth #2033 at CELL BIO an ASCB/EMBO joint meeting from December 4-6 in Washington D.C. as well as a Tech Talk “We Image Differently — Taking Live Cell Imaging to Another Level” on Monday December 5th from 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM in Theater #1 of the main hall.
  • October 24, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces Release 2.1 of the CellAssist Software, with enhanced project templates and user-adjustable z-bottom for imaging 3D cell structures such as organoids.
  • October 3, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces its conference participation with a scheduled Tech Talk by Alan Blanchard, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, “We Image Differently — Taking Live Cell Imaging to Another Level” on Monday, December 5, 2022 from 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
  • September 28, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces that it will be exhibiting in Booth #2033 and demonstrating its instruments and software, as well as partners’ products at American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. December 3 to 7, 2022.
  • May 23, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces it will be exhibiting at the ISSCR (International Society for Stem Cell Research) in San Francisco June 15 to 18, 2022.
  • April 29, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces its presentation at the Solutions Theater on “Where will your data come from? A solution for live cell imaging.” By Michael Moody, VP of Software Engineering, at the 20th Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, May 3 to 5, 2022.
  • March 31, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces it will be exhibiting at the 20th Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, May 3 to 5, 2022.
  • February 15, 2022 — Thrive Bioscience announces Release 2.0 of the CellAssist Software, a major release with important functionality additions, including an advanced confluency algorithm and additional project set-up tools to increase the speed and ease of documentation.
  • December 28, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience announces it will be exhibiting at the “Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 2022 International Conference & Exhibition” in Boston, February 5 to 9, 2022.
 
  • December 27, 2021 — United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) allows two patent applications by Thrive Bioscience, “Method and System for Cell Operations using a Blockchain Data Network” and “Method and System for Cell Operations Using the Internet of Things.” Thrive Bioscience’s intellectual property portfolio now includes 78 patent applications in the U.S., China, Europe, and Japan, of which 27 have been issued or allowed.
 
  • December 20, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience announces it will be presenting at two life science industry conferences: the “Biotech Showcase: The Investor Conference for Innovators” and at “Digital RESI at JPM,” both in January 2022.
 
  • December 9, 2021 — Thomas Forest Farb-Horch, CEO of Thrive Bioscience, speaks at “IVYFON (Ivy Family Office Network) New York City Family Office Outlook 2022 Forum,” in person and simulcast on the topic, “Good Science Needs Good Cells!” https://ivyfon.com/
   
  • October 18, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience announces new capabilities of the CellAssist with the addition of carbon dioxide gas control (retrofittable), 20x magnification objective (in addition to its 4x and 10x), imaging of 386-well plates, and new video capture capabilities.
 
  • September 7, 2021 — Karen Stein joins as Executive Vice President to lead commercialization efforts at Thrive Bioscience. Karen has 35 years of experience as a growth strategy consultant and in sales and marketing executive roles at ALPCO Diagnostics, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Brooks Automation, and Millipore.
 
  • July 30, 2021 — United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues patent application, “Cell Culture Incubators with Integrated Imaging Systems” to Thrive Bioscience. The Company’s intellectual property portfolio now includes 71 patent applications in the U.S., China, Europe, and Japan, of which 21 have been issued or allowed.
 
  • June 14, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience releases a new video providing a comprehensive overview of the CellAssist, a state-of-the-art automated imaging system that provides high-resolution stitched images with excellent registration. The unique capabilities and applications outlined in the video enable researchers to gain deeper insights into cell dynamics and greatly improve the reproducibility of cell culture experiments. Watch the full CellAssist demo video at: https://ww.thrivebio.com/the-cellassist
 
  • May 12, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience releases a new video to cover a recently conducted interview with Steven Sheridan, Ph.D., Senior Research Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. During the “Researcher’s Insight” interview, Dr. Sheridan provided an in-depth overview of how the CellAssist addresses his laboratory’s cell culture pain points. Watch the full interview at: https://ww.thrivebio.com/the-cellassist
 
  • April 26, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience announces the promotion of Michael Moody, M.S., from the position of Director, Software Development to Vice President, Software Engineering.
 
  • April 1, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience announces major new imaging capabilities within the industry for tissue culture and suspension cell culture now available to customers starting with Version 1.9 of the CellAssist software releases. Version 1.9 Introduces important new “3D” cell line imaging functionality with its user-customizable selection of five to 60 focal planes and distances of five to 50 µm between focal planes.
 
  • March 19, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience wins first place in “Innovator’s Pitch Challenge” among 30 leading life science companies at industry-leading conference, “Digital RESI (Redefining Early Stage Investments),” produced by Boston-based Life Science Nation, LLC in March 2021. https://www.lifesciencenation.com/
 
  • March 19, 2021 — Thomas Farb-Horch serves as a panelist on “Investing in Newest Tools to Advance Research at Digital RESI (Redefining Early Stage Investments),” with four leading venture and corporate venture capitalists.
 
  • March 19, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience wins second place in “Innovator’s Pitch Challenge” at industry-leading conference, “4D (Devices, Diagnostics, Drugs, and Digital Health) Meets Artificial Intelligence (AI),” produced by Boston-based Life Science Nation, LLC in March 2021.
 
  • February 25, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience promotes Ira Schaefer, J.D., from the position of Vice President, Intellectual Property to General Counsel. Mr. Schaefer has overseen the growth of Thrive’s important IP portfolio upon joining Thrive from Hogan Lovells.
 
  • February 18, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience enters into a distribution agreement for the CellAssist with AS ONE CORPORATION, headquartered in Osaka, Japan. AS ONE is a leading supplier of research instruments in Japan.
 
  • January 7, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience enters into a distribution agreement with J.C. Gonzalez, Inc., a leading provider for laboratory equipment and consumables in San Germán, Puerto Rico for distribution of the CellAssist family products in Puerto Rico.
 
    • January 2, 2021 — Thrive Bioscience enters into a distribution agreement with D-Mark Biosciences, a premier provider for laboratory equipment and consumables in Scarborough, Ontario to market the CellAssist family products in Canada.
 
  • October 1, 2020 — Thrive Bioscience announces filing of four patent applications for improving cell culture utilizing technologies in the fields of the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, image processing and automatic focusing.

  • September 1, 2020 — Thrive Bioscience presents at the AI, Big Data, and Digital Health Conference on September 8, 2020.

  • June 8, 2020 – Thrive Bioscience presents at the MedInvest Infectious Disease and Immunology Conference on June 15, 2020.

  • May 15, 2020 — Thrive Bioscience named one of “50 Fastest Growing Companies of 2020” by Silicon Review.

  • March 30, 2020 — Herb Kenny, former Vice President of Global Sales, Scientific Instruments at Thermo Fisher Scientific, joins Thrive Bioscience as Chief Commercial Officer, completing the senior management team for commercializing Thrive Bioscience’s family of products to significantly improve cell culture.

  • December 31, 2019 — Thrive Bioscience in December completes first five sales of its CellAssist instrument with shipments to commercial customers in Japan, Korea and the U.S.
  • December 31, 2019 — Thrive Bioscience in December completes first five sales of its CellAssist instrument with shipments to commercial customers in Japan, Korea and the U.S.

  • November 1, 2019 — Thrive Bioscience files U.S. patent applications on blockchain and the internet of things (IOT) to cell culture. Thrive’s patent portfolio now consists of over 50 applications related to cell culture of which eight have issued.

  • August 9, 2019 — Thrive Bioscience named one of 20 Most Promising Biotech Solution Providers 2019 and one of 20 Best Biotech Companies of 2019 by CIO (Chief Information Officer) Review.

  • June 5, 2019 — Jeff Goldman, former R&D Manager at Agilent Technologies, joins Thrive Bioscience as Vice President of Engineering & Manufacturing to oversee the productization and manufacturing of Thrive’s family of cell culture instruments.

  • January 1, 2019 — Ira J. Schaefer, Esq., former Partner at Hogan Lovells, joins Thrive Bioscience as Vice President of Intellectual Property to oversee and continue the expansion of Thrive Bioscience’s intellectual property portfolio.
  • September 17, 2018 — Takashi Kiyoizumi, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, joins Thrive Bioscience as Executive Vice President of International and Senior Advisor to CEO.

  • April 5, 2018 — Thrive Bioscience licenses-in on an exclusive basis from an internationally-recognized research institute, an imaging-related portfolio of eight patent applications of which six have issued. Thrive Bioscience’s patent portfolio now includes 34 patent applications of which seven have issued.
  • July 7, 2016 — Thrive Bioscience announces instruments and services agreement with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.