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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more

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Adaptive Photo) — Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies , the company said today in a regulatory filing. Seshadri sold his previous startup, AppSheet, to Google Cloud in 2020 and was most recently a distinguished software engineer at the tech giant. Mark Adams. Praveen Seshadri.

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Baby Yoda’s real name and Bill Gates’ podcast pal: Test your geek smarts with our year-end news quiz

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Department of Defense reaffirmed this year that which cloud computing giant had won the lucrative $10 billion JEDI contract? In June, Seattle biotechnology upstart Sana Biotechnology revealed that it had raised more than $700 million in venture funding. Cloud Paper. Adaptive Biotechnologies (It went public in 2019).

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The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Adaptive Biotechnologies. So it’s little wonder that there’s stiff competition for the 2021 GeekWire Health Innovation of the Year.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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In his most recent role, McCay focused on multi-cloud strategy at a private firm that worked with various U.S. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation disclosed in a SEC filing that Leslie Trigg is voluntarily resigning from the company’s board. federal government agencies. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019.

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

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The office will focus on artificial intelligence, cloud-based tools, and other technology applications. The 13-year-old company also sees an opportunity to deepen its relationship with Amazon Web Services, its cloud provider that supports its DNA sequencing and other work, said Miller.

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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 6, 2022

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Adaptive Biotechnologies lays off about 100 people, 12% of headcount, to ‘streamline our workforce’. Adaptive Biotechnologies is laying off 12% of its workforce, or about 100 employees, GeekWire has learned. It’s 2022, and Microsoft’s cloud business is on track to become half of its overall revenue.