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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

GeekWire

The office will focus on artificial intelligence, cloud-based tools, and other technology applications. But it will also play a big role in growing the company’s capabilities in applying artificial intelligence to biomedical applications, said Miller. (Moderna Photo) Cambridge, Mass.-based The company invested $1.2

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Protein design to precision health: Vote for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Good Therapeutics Graphic) Developing therapeutics that are active only where they are needed in the body has the potential to reduce toxic side effects.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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Modulus, a cell therapy biotech incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, raises $3.5M

GeekWire

Modulus Therapeutics , a Seattle-based cellular therapy company spun out of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2), announced $3.5 Numerous companies are developing NK cell products. The CoMotion innovation program at the University of Washington also provides lab space. Human natural killer cell.

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Bristol Myers Squibb exec on the company’s growth in Seattle and beating cancer with immune cells

GeekWire

BMS has more than 150 open positions in the region, jostling with Sana Biotechnology, Umoja Biopharma and other cell and gene therapy biotech companies for workers. Such research aims to counteract the development of resistance to treatment and expand the therapy to solid tumors. BMS Photo). BMS’s Seattle labs.

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

How we can help companies do the best with internal and external talent — to develop, to hire, to retain, to redeploy. Stephanie Strong is the founder and CEO of Boulder Care, an app-based addiction treatment program for those suffering from opioid use disorder. Other finalists: Accolade; Athira Pharma; Rover; and Sana Biotechnology.

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AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

Vox

The rapid pace of progress is feeding on itself, with more companies pouring more resources into AI development and computing power. But given the speed of development in the field, it’s long past time to move beyond a reactive mode, one where we only address AI’s downsides once they’re clear and present.

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