GeekWire

JULY 2, 2020

John Lewis, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Seattle’s OncoSenX, and co-founder and CEO of Entos Pharmaceuticals in Edmonton, Alberta. A researcher with ties to Seattle-based biotech company OncoSenX has received a $4.2 OncoSenX is the spinoff of a third company, Seattle-based Oisin Biotechnologies.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The clinical-stage company is launching from Seattle Children’s Therapeutics , an innovation hub within the pediatric hospital. The startup has an exclusive license to use novel CAR T-cell technology developed by Jensen and his team. Steven Brugger will join BrainChild Bio as CEO.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

CTI Photo) CTI BioPharma , a Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company developing therapies for blood-related cancers, is set to be acquired in a deal with Swedish biotech giant Sobi. billion, nearly double the company’s current market capitalization at end of trading Tuesday. CTI BioPharma CEO Adam Craig.

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GeekWire

JULY 7, 2021

The company, a spin-out from the UW’s Institute for Protein Design , is developing vaccines to resemble naturally occurring viruses. The company’s two COVID-19 vaccine candidates are built from spherical nanoparticles studded with 60 copies of a major viral component, a bit of the spike protein.

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GeekWire

MARCH 31, 2021

The news: Pharmaceutical giant Amgen agreed to acquire Rodeo Therapeutics, a Seattle biotech startup creating small-molecule therapies that help repair and regrow tissues. Thong Le is the company’s CEO; he’s also CEO of Seattle-based Accelerator Life Science Partners, one of Rodeo’s investors that helped launch the startup.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

University of Washington researchers are developing a wearable device to detect opioid overdoses and administer a drug to reverse them. The researchers collaborated with global injection device company West Pharmaceutical Services , which developed the commercially-available injection component.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Founded in 2017, Icosavax is developing vaccines that resemble naturally occurring viruses. The company raised more than $150 million from private investors before going public in 2021. Simpson formerly led another IPD spinout, PvP Biologics, which sold to the pharmaceutical company Takeda.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

Icosavax is having quite the debut as Washington state’s newest public company. The company, a spin-out from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design , is developing vaccines to resemble naturally occurring viruses. (Photo via Twitter/@icosavax).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The company plans to launch the product in 2024. Recent advances in ink jet printing and microfluidics tech have made developing a smart collar device possible, he added. ” The 7-person startup was founded by Michael Manion , who also runs a research and development company called Keon Research. JetMeds Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

(Longevity Photo) Bradford Zakes recently helped combine the Seattle-area biotech company he led, Cerevast Medical , with two startups to create a new company. Now he’s poised to take Longevity Biomedical public as its president and CEO, via a merger with a shell company. The combined company is expected to be valued at $236.2

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been widely reported that Apple is working on developing a number of advanced health tools, ranging from blood glucose monitoring to body-temperature-based fertility. Now, a new report claims that Apple is also working with the University of California, Los Angeles and pharmaceutical company Biogen to see if its… Read more.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

A manufacturing error is raising concerns about a promising covid-19 vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. Read more.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

Hackers from Russian intelligence services are targeting organizations that are involved in COVID-19 vaccine development, according to US, UK, and Canadian authorities. The NCSC believes the hackers are collecting COVID-19 research, including vaccine development information. “We Photo by Ute Grabowsky/Photothek via Getty Images.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Nvidia made its name designing chips that can dramatically accelerate certain kinds of calculations — those involved in rendering 3D models, for instance — but has recently moved into software development. This will begin with 400 offerings in four domains: real estate, utilities, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, Koerte said.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2023

based AI drug design and development company Absci named Frans van Houten to its board of directors. During a nearly 12-year tenure as CEO, he divested in the company’s consumer tech divisions, including TV, audio, video, and lighting, while acquiring more than 30 med-tech companies. based toy company.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs. Shaw replaces Mark Liffmann , who co-founded the company in 2016. Impel Pharmaceuticals CFO Michael Kalb is stepping down at the end of this year.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

New funding: At a moment when vaccines are on everyone’s mind, a Seattle-based biotech company that has an unusual approach to vaccine production has raised $100 million in a Series B round. The company launched its COVID program in October, supported in part by $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 2019, the company develops small motion-detecting sensors that fit on prescription pill bottles, asthma inhalers, eye droppers, and other medicine-related products. The startup generates revenue from pharmacies, senior living centers, and other health-tech companies that want to integrate Medsense into their own platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated one, especially for multinationals doing business across the globe. Although non-compliance with regulations can attract exorbitant fines, many pharma companies still depend on manual process for these value chains.

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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 a company standpoint, you minimize turnover and search and recruiting costs.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The nonprofit Mars Society is getting set to take the next giant leap in its mission to support Red Planet exploration and settlement, by establishing a Mars Technology Institute to develop the tools and processes those settlers will need. A computer-generated image shows an early Mars settlement.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

Leen Kawas, the Seattle biotech exec who resigned as CEO of Athira Pharma after an investigation found she had altered doctoral research images that helped to form the initial basis for the company, re-emerged Friday as co-founder and managing general partner of a new investment firm called Propel Bio Partners LP.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. Chris Chin. Axon Photo). — Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz.,

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The report is based on an online survey conducted in April, which received responses from 1,684 participants globally across multiple industry sectors, company sizes, and functional specialties. The findings also showed that the most commonly reported uses of generative AI are in marketing, sales, product development, and service operations.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Truveta’s CEO is Terry Myerson , a former Microsoft executive who led the company’s Windows and Devices Group before departing in 2018 after a 21-year career at the tech giant. “He These include Providence, the largest health system in Washington state, which was involved in forming the company. This is a global opportunity.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Frazier Healthcare Partners — which has invested in biotechnology companies since 1991 — filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $100 million for a special purpose acquisition corporation, also known as a SPAC. Over the years, Frazier has bankrolled more than 100 companies, taking more than 60 to IPO or merger.

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GeekWire

APRIL 21, 2023

De La Rosa was previously an executive director at Enanta Pharmaceuticals, where he helped clinical development of assets for RSV, SARS-CoV-2, and HBV. De La Rosa also held leadership roles at Abbot, Takeda and Janssen, where he led the development of assets for HIV, HCV, RSV, and the Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine program.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Over the past two years, Swedish-English pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has been at the heart of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a vaccine and supplying more than 2.5 billion doses to people in 170 countries.

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2021

based biotech company AbSci raised an undisclosed amount of funding from pharmaceutical giant Merck. 26 notes a $70 million cash infusion for the company. “AbSci’s technologies may enable discovery and development of exciting new biotherapeutics that could meaningfully impact human health in the years to come.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With organizations racing to put more generative AI tools in users’ hands—and software vendors rapidly integrating those tools into their products—CIOs face a familiar choice: develop their own solutions in house, or invest and adapt tools already available in a fast-growing AI marketplace. Yet it’s not a simple build-vs.-buy

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A new approach to treating covid-19 may be on the horizon. Clinical trials of several antiviral candidates are expected to finish within the next few months, all taken as a simple pill provided before or soon after an infection is confirmed. Read more.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2022

. — working to make the Intermountain Northwest and Washington State a magnet for companies providing and consuming expert life and health science contract research, development, and manufacturing services of medicines and medical devices by enhancing workforce development and services to pharmaceutical and medical devices companies.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 17, 2021

According to trial registration data, pharmaceutical company Moderna will start a Phase I clinical trial of its HIV vaccine candidate this week, based on the same mRNA platform behind its successful covid-19 vaccine. Perhaps the next best hope for a permanent way to defeat HIV is about to get underway. The trial will… Read more.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2023

(Seagen Photo) Clay Siegall is proud of his legacy as co-founder and longtime CEO of Seagen, the largest biotech company in the Seattle area. “I I built a great company,” Siegall said in an exclusive interview with GeekWire on Wednesday. But Siegall, who had led the company since 2003, was not in charge as the deal came together.

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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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Gizmodo

MARCH 23, 2021

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca isn’t running out of rakes to step on anytime soon. Less than a day after the company announced promising preliminary results from the U.S.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

On Friday, pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced the results of its clinical trial testing out a combination oral antiviral therapy. The dawn of treatments that can effectively prevent severe covid-19 may truly be here. The study found that the two-drug combo reduced the chances of hospitalization and death among… Read more.

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