GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Protheroe previously worked at the UK-based Royal College of Art as director of development and alumni relations. Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder. .

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Last year’s winner was Truveta, which is aggregating data across multiple healthcare systems to generate insights into health and biomedical research.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2024

The five finalists for the Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards highlight the multitude of ways that technology is changing healthcare, from treatment in the hospital to the development of new therapeutics. Adyn also aims to harness its data for research. Read more about the finalists and cast your vote below.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

While Silicon Valley still pays top dollar for IT pros, the war for talent has moved beyond the technology industry, with other verticals vying for talented IT workers who have the skills to enable digital transformation, process improvement, change management, and the development of apps and services.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

McCay spent 25 years at Hitachi Data Systems, serving as SVP of global product strategy for nine years and as SVP of global solution sales for three years. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation disclosed in a SEC filing that Leslie Trigg is voluntarily resigning from the company’s board. federal government agencies.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

Novo Nordisk currently operates a research and development center in Seattle for diabetes, liver disease and other therapeutic areas. The company will continue to have operations in Seattle focused on digital therapy, data science and artificial intelligence, said the spokesperson.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2021

Seattle-based health data company Truveta today announced $95 million in fresh funding and the addition of three new participating healthcare systems, bringing its total to 17. Truveta last year began an ambitious mission to aggregate medical records data from its partner institutions to link treatments with outcomes and underlying health.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2020

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.

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GeekWire

JUNE 17, 2021

Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas has been placed on temporary leave until the Seattle area biotechnology company completes a review “stemming from doctoral research Dr. Kawas conducted while at Washington State University.” ” Shares fell sharply in after-hours trading, sinking more than 30%.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2021

Absci, which partners with other biopharma companies to identify and develop protein-based drug candidates, has its roots in Portland. Things are different now, said Alexandre, as companies such as Seagen and Adaptive Biotechnologies go public and grow in the region. Bolstering the workforce, increasing regional connections.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2021

New funding: Eliem Therapeutics , a new Seattle biotech startup led by former Juno Therapeutics exec Bob Azelby , raised $80 million to develop clinically-validated therapies for pain and depression. Investors : RA Capital Management, Access Biotechnology, and Intermediate Capital Group are among the company’s investors.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2023

The November layoffs coincided with a decision by Neoleukin to discontinue development of a computationally designed protein therapeutic being tested in a phase 1 trial. Neoleukin shifted its focus to developing other protein therapeutics. Neoleukin currently has 46 employees, according to a spokesperson, down from 77 in September.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Founded in 2011, Athira is in late-stage development for its lead therapeutic candidate called NDX-1017. Formerly known as M3 Biotechnology, the company is led by Dr. That reflects the traditional life cycle of biotech companies, which commonly invest in research and development for years before bringing products to market.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2023

His research lab has helped forge Seattle-area startups developing a wide range of technologies. There’s a fourth biotech company being born, said Olson, who also heads the Invent at Seattle Children’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program to train students underrepresented in science for careers in biotechnology.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2023

The news is a bright spot for Seattle’s biopharma scene which has seen employee cuts at several biotech companies recently as part of wider layoffs in the industry, including at NanoString Technologies , Sana Biotechnology , Eliem Therapeutics and Neoleukin Therapeutics. “This timing was just right for us,” he said.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. -based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Nitin Sood as its first-ever chief commercial officer. Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information. Nitin Sood. As part of the Zepel.io

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He’s now CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, and he’s not taking any big chances in the current economic downturn. “As a development stage company, we’re doing everything we can to strike the right balance between accelerating the development of our platform while seeking to extend our cash runway,” said Patel.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Data in her studies assessed a compound that was central to the founding of the neurosciences company. I want to make clear that the enhancement to images was not a change to or manipulation of the underlying data.” ” The company investigators concluded that Kawas had “ altered ” — not enhanced — the data-containing images.

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JUNE 2, 2022

What’s impressive is how the Wilkes-3 performs both quickly and efficiently, reducing energy use while supporting simulations, AI, and data analytics for research across the university and the UK. A team from the UK, Sweden, India, and the Netherlands developed the approach, known as transformational machine learning (TML).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 9, 2023

and allied networks and data. New technologies—particularly in the fields of AI and biotechnology—are being developed and are proliferating faster than companies and governments can shape norms, protect privacy, and prevent dangerous outcomes. Thank you, Col.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Software, less than two years after he took the helm of the Seattle-based data visualization company owned by Salesforce. Sana Biotechnology will cut 15% of its workforce in latest layoffs affecting Seattle companies. . … Read More. Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

Throwing light on the digital adoption challenges, Rath says, “In the pharma industry doctors are involved only after a drug’s development and approvals are completed, which works just fine. Doctors are not involved in the development of a solution right from the start. However, patient data is confidential.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

AltPep is developing tools and treatments for diseases caused by amyloid proteins that are incorrectly folded and create harmful deposits. AltPrep is currently focused on Alzheimer’s and developing tools that can detect the illness even before someone is symptomatic. Athira went public last year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Jeff Bezos-backed startup Nautilus Biotechnology set to go public via SPAC at $900M valuation. Nautilus Biotechnology, a Seattle-based biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel, is the latest company to go public using a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. Most popular stories on GeekWire. … Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%). From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

Seattle is known for its strength in cell therapy, notes Modulus chief scientist Max Darnell , with growing biotech companies such as Sana Biotechnology and Lyell Immunopharma, as well as an arm of Bristol Myers Squib. “We want to be this discovery player that can plug into these larger incumbents,” he said. Modulus Photo).

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

The company has around 20 algorithms designed to predict things like how long a patient might stay in the hospital, which patients might become seriously ill, and which might develop a deadly condition called sepsis. Like many other groups that build health algorithms, Epic doesn’t publicly share details of how the algorithms are built.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. VP of Product Scot Madill , who previously held product roles at Globys and SAP data management solutions provider Winshuttle. Nautilus Biotechnology Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Dr. Melanie Ivarsson, chief development officer at Moderna, one of the major pharmaceutical companies with a vaccine candidate in Phase 3 tests. Thursday, October 22: Education and Sana Biotechnology. Regence Health Tech Stage: Fireside chat with Steve Harr, CEO of Sana Biotechnology. Remote learning. Virtual commencements.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

The investment firm’s team includes senior associate Dasom (Christine) Yoo , former Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center business development manager. Kawas co-founded Athira (originally M3 Biotechnology) in 2011. I want to make clear that the enhancement to images was not a change to or manipulation of the underlying data.”.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2023

But the potential market is vast, Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon told GeekWire. DeepMind’s AlphaFold tool and similar software developed by the IPD won the “ Breakthrough of the Year ” award from Science magazine in 2021. Department of Defense to develop antibody-based therapeutics.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

” The company, in clinical-stage development of a compound for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease dementia, raised about $204 million in the IPO, at a share price of $17.00. The lawsuits maintain that Kawas’ graduate research laid the groundwork for Athira’s efforts to develop new treatments. on Tuesday.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Two companies in the Seattle region, Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies, are on a quest to create a better diagnostic test. Microsoft and Adaptive say they will make the data from the study freely available to other researchers working on COVID-19 initiatives. But could there be a third way? More information is available here.

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2021

Seattle-based Nautilus Biotechnology appointed Human Protein Atlas Director Emma Lundberg to its scientific advisory board. Nautilus is developing a new way to analyze the proteome, the set of proteins in a biological sample. All of Vulcan’s environmental big-data projects and teams moved over to AI2 earlier this year.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2022

The optimism that emerged with the successful development of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments continued to propel investment and advances through 2021. Hilary Hehman , vice president of business development at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. It’s been a remarkable few years for biotech, in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

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