[2] The foundation conducts biomedical research, promotes disease awareness, and acts as an information source for patients, the medical community, and the general public.
Tim Block, a professor of virology at Thomas Jefferson University at the time, switched his research focus from herpesviridae to hepatitis B.
He reached out to Baruch S. Blumberg, the Nobel prize winning discoverer of the hepatitis B virus, who invited Block to join him as a research fellow at Oxford University.
[4] In 2006, the Hepatitis B Foundation opened its first research facility on Delaware Valley College's campus to house the Baruch S Blumberg Institute.
The Hepatitis B Foundation's biotechnology center has created over 700 jobs and brought in more than $1.8 billion to the Bucks County economic region between 2013 and 2015.
[22] In 2017, the foundation secured a $13 million grant to expand its Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center by 47,000 square feet, which will add 100 new jobs to its research facility.