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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. Securities and Exchange Commission. Proteomics company Nautilus Biotechnology went public via a SPAC last month and Absci, developing a drug discovery platform, filed to go public just last week.

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Shares of Neoleukin Therapeutics spike after announcing layoffs and potential sale or merger

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The publicly traded Seattle biotech company hired investment bank SVB Securities to review potential alternatives including a sale, merger, asset divestiture or licensing. “It Last week Novo Nordisk announced it was laying off 86 workers and shutting a lab site in Seattle.

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Life sciences startups in Eastern Washington find a welcoming ecosystem away from big cities

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Washington State University assistant professor and Appiture Biotechnologies co-founder Georgina Lynch. Medcurity makes it easier for healthcare organizations to comply with federal privacy and security laws through an online series of queries resembling Turbotax. WSU Photo).

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Ex-Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas starts $150M fund with key investors from former company

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Propel Bio is seeking to raise a pooled investment fund of $150 million, according to a filing Friday morning with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kawas co-founded Athira (originally M3 Biotechnology) in 2011. Papers with altered images were cited in an earlier patent licensed by the company from WSU.

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‘This is huge for us’: Interview with Leafly CEO as cannabis company goes public in SPAC merger

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Founded in 2010, Leafly’s online marketplace lets customers shop and select cannabis products from licensed retailers. Leafly is among a group of Seattle-area companies going public via the SPAC route, joining a list that includes Rover, Nautilus Biotechnology, and Getty Images. Shares were up about 7% as of Monday afternoon.

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