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Seattle biotech startup Deverra Therapeutics raising cash to develop cellular immunotherapies

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Colleen Delaney, the founder, chief scientific officer, and executive vice president of research and development at Deverra Therapeutics. Founded in 2019, Deverra has an exclusive license from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for a stem cell expansion and directed-differentiation platform.

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Univ. of Washington rolls out new licensing process to streamline negotiations with spinouts

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This week the UW unveiled Husky FAST Start , a new licensing process meant to speed up startup license discussions. universities more control over technology licensing. 1 in 2018 among public universities for the amount of federal money spent annually on research and development. public university. The UW also ranked No.

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Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers

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The structure opened in downtown Seattle in 2019. The startup has an exclusive license to use novel CAR T-cell technology developed by Jensen and his team. BrainChild Bio will rent space in the Seattle Children’s building Building Cure.

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Seattle-based Icosavax, which is developing COVID-19 vaccines, files for IPO 4 years after launch

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Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. The company, a spin-out from the UW’s Institute for Protein Design , is developing vaccines to resemble naturally occurring viruses. million in 2019 and $18.9 Icosavax Photo). Net losses were $5.3

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Weekly Update 3-25-2019

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We’ve been talking about the Windows Server 2019 Cloud Playground for the past few weeks, and now, it is 100% ready for you to use. Until then, we have new, live Azure labs up and running for you: Develop with Webjobs in Azure. We are happy to introduce Licenses Rotation ! Cloud Playground: Come and Play.

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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology

The Verge

The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. But IBM was also found to be sharing a separate training data set of nearly one million photos in January 2019 taken from Flickr without the consent of the subjects — though the photos were shared under a Creative Commons license.

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Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019

The Verge

Stallman founded the FSF in 1985 and acted as its president until 2019 , when he resigned after making widely criticized statements about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Even after his resignations, Stallman remained in charge of the GNU Project, which develops and advocates for free and open-source software and operating systems.