danaher

Danaher Corporation is an American healthcare company headquartered in Washington, D.C.. It develops products used for advances in biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. The company operates three divisions: biotechnology (28% of 2024 revenues), which develops products for the development of therapeutics; life sciences (31% of 2024 revenues), which develops products to identify causes of disease, new therapies, and to test and manufacture new drugs, vaccines and gene editing technologies; and diagnostics (41% of 2024 revenues), which develops instruments, consumables, and software and services to diagnose diseases.[1] Danaher was founded in 1984 by brothers Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales; it was named after Danaher Creek in Western Montana, where the brothers came up with the idea for the company while fishing.[2][3][4]