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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies hires new CFO from J.P. Morgan Chase amid layoffs

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Adaptive Biotechnologies has a new CFO. Bob Wise has left Amazon, where he led the Kubernetes and Open Source Office as general manager. Tycho Peterson, Adaptive’s new CFO. Morgan Chase Photo). Tycho Peterson comes from J.P. The announcement comes a day after Adaptive laid off 12% of its workforce , or about 100 people.

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Protein design to precision health: Vote 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. Related coverage: Biotech startups join AWS and other partners in open-source project to help design new proteins DexCare Options available on the DexCare platform.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. Nitin Sood , chief commercial officer of the MRD business at Adaptive Biotechnologies, is departing. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. EDB has more than 1,500 customers and over 750 employees.

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‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

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From left: Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon, Microsoft researcher Jonathan Carlson, Deepcell CEO Maddison Masaeli, and moderator Chris Picardo, a Madrona venture partner. Life sciences panelists at Madrona Venture Group’s Intelligent Application Summit. GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert).

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Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

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I think there’s a lot of room for creativity, especially within the data, machine learning and AI space at the interface between biotechnology and data science. Leek: People who take massive online open courses are already well educated, like master’s level people trying to change careers.

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5 recommendations for successfully implementing distributed innovation and shared value

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Their joint work on a process for cloning genes in microorganisms resulted in three patents that formed the foundation of the nascent biotechnology industry. As you have seen, the collaborative structure of the open source model can be perfect for developing robust and refined products, but only once the initial core has been defined.

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Jeff Bezos joins $76M round for secretive biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder, Stanford scientist

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Nautilus Biotechnology co-founders Sujal Patel (left) and Parag Mallick. Mallick and Patel teamed up to create Nautilus Biotechnology. He runs ProteoWizard , an open source platform for studying proteomics data, and his lab created ImmunoGlobe , an online map that shows how immune cells interact. Nautilus Photo).