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Adaptive Biotechnologies’ new HQ: Co-founders show off 100K square-foot space in Seattle

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Adaptive co-founders Harlan (left) and Chad Robins on the plaza at the new Adaptive Biotechnology headquarters. After doubling its workforce during the pandemic, Adaptive Biotechnologies finally has room to grow. E, which was completed on time and within budget. GeekWire Photos / Charlotte Schubert).

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Biotech industry leaders share cautious optimism for 2023 amid downturn and layoffs

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He’s now CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, and he’s not taking any big chances in the current economic downturn. Everyone is budgeting 50% longer to raise their rounds,” said Canestaro. In Washington, Absci , Zymeworks , TwinStrand Biosciences , NanoString Technologies and Sana Biotechnology all shed employees in 2022.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

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That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. In today’s dynamic business environment, IT must transcend traditional roles,” Adaptive Biotechnologies’ Zhou says. He plans to scale his company’s experimental generative AI initiatives “and evolve into an AI-native enterprise” in 2024.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center cutting 76 jobs, citing impact of economic downturn

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In internal messages about the job cuts, Fred Hutch officials are citing the impact of the economic downturn on the research institution’s budget. Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is cutting more than 70 jobs, about 2% of its workforce of more than 3,000 people, GeekWire has learned. Update, 11:45 a.m.:

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Juno’s lasting legacy: How the cell therapy juggernaut influenced biotech in Seattle and beyond

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Juno veterans went on to start or fill leadership positions at Sana Biotechnology, Lyell Immunopharma, Umoja Biopharma, Shape Therapeutics, GentiBio, Eliem Therapeutics, Genemod, Century Therapeutics, Silverback Therapeutics, Tune Therapeutics, Affini-T Therapeutics, and others. Sana Biotechnology. Photo courtesy of William Canestaro).

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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We offer flexible work hours, reimbursement for college classes, and have a pretty good training budget, but if it’s all about money, people can make that elsewhere.” We are trying to create avenues for discovery and exploration so employees feel they have the best work/life balance and [enrichment] opportunities,” Stephens explains. “We

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Fred Hutch’s president says a new strain of virus research center is needed to fight future outbreaks

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” Lynch said the pandemic’s effect on Fred Hutch’s operating budget is a “huge issue,” as it has been for UW Medicine. You could screen people on the way in, and you would know that it was safe for 40,000 people to root for the Mariners there.”

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