Who owns Ortho?
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is an in vitro diagnostics company that makes products and diagnostic equipment for blood testing. Ortho produces in-vitro diagnostics equipment and associated assays and reagents, serving the clinical laboratories and immunohematology sectors of the medical field. Who owns Ortho? Ortho Products, Inc., is formed in Linden, New Jersey, as a division of…
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is an in vitro diagnostics company that makes products and diagnostic equipment for blood testing. Ortho produces in-vitro diagnostics equipment and associated assays and reagents, serving the clinical laboratories and immunohematology sectors of the medical field.
Who owns Ortho?
Ortho Products, Inc., is formed in Linden, New Jersey, as a division of Johnson & Johnson, in 1939, Philip Levine, in the field of hematology, joins Ortho Products to continue his research into the mechanics of the Rh system in human blood.
Ortho serves two primary industries in the medical field, clinical laboratories, by producing platforms and assays that test for a variety of diseases, conditions, and substances; and immunohematology, by providing the means to ensure blood transfusion recipients receive appropriate and compatible blood.
Johnson and Johnson acquired Eastman Kodak’s Clinical Diagnostics Division in, which was then merged with Ortho Diagnostic Systems in 1997. Ortho’s global corporate offices are in Raritan, New Jersey, while their global research and development center is in Rochester, New York. In 2014, The Carlyle Group purchased the company from Johnson & Johnson for $4.15 billion. Ortho Clinical Diagnostics now operated as an independent company, up until its acquisition by Quidel Corporation for $6 billion, on May 27th, 2022.
