QuidelOrtho Corp.

History

YearDetail
1939 Ortho Products Inc. is formed.
1947 Ortho developed the first blood bank anti-D test.
1979 Quidel Corp is founded in San Diego, California.
1983 Introduced the first commercial product for pregnancy testing.
1989 Introduced first hepatitis C antibody test.
1999 Quidel received FDA clearance for rapid diagnostics flu test, Quickvue, and Influenza Test A+B.
2010 Quidel acquired Diagnostics Hybrids Inc.
2011 Received FDA clearance for Sofia.
2017 Quidel acquired Traige's cardiac and toxicology product line.
2022 Quidel corp. and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics merged as QuidelOrtho.
2023 QuidelOrtho Corp. partnered with BYG4lab.