Health/Life Sciences – Page 10 of 57

Nov 28, 2022, 8:46 AM

Testing Amazon Clinic, the tech giant’s latest foray into healthcare

Can Amazon help provide healthcare advice and treatment as efficiently as it delivers items to your door? That was the… Read More

Nov 26, 2022, 7:00 AM

Seattle-area health startup One Item expands CDC-backed heart study

Seattle-area company One Item is working with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to support a study of… Read More

Nov 17, 2022, 7:04 AM

Advice for entrepreneurs in the medical device industry on raising cash and growing startups

Entrepreneurs in the medical device industry face a shifting regulatory landscape, skeptical investors and a healthcare system resistant to change.… Read More

Nov 16, 2022, 9:14 PM

Fred Hutch research: Bacteria may make tumors more aggressive

Bacteria that colonize tumors may contribute to cancer progression, suggests new research from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The oral bacterium… Read More

Nov 16, 2022, 10:46 AM

Seattle vaccine startup taking on pharma giant GSK with shingles shot raises $26M

Seattle vaccine startup Curevo, which is developing a vaccine against shingles, raised $26 million. The funding comes on the heels… Read More

Nov 16, 2022, 7:00 AM

Amazon Web Services launches accelerator that focuses on the healthcare workforce

Amazon Web Services is launching a four-week accelerator program for 20 global startups working on digital solutions for the healthcare… Read More

Nov 15, 2022, 8:27 AM

New spinout from AI2 lands $4M to quell ICU alarms and make the hospital a quieter place

A new startup out of Seattle’s AI2 Incubator raised $4 million to reduce alarms from devices attached to patients in… Read More

Nov 15, 2022, 4:00 AM

Seattle biotech startup born out of a Roche buyout lands $93M to advance therapies

Seattle biotech startup Bonum Therapeutics raised $93 million less than two months after its parent company Good Therapeutics was bought… Read More

Nov 11, 2022, 8:03 AM

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

Life scientists have a data problem: information is fragmented, siloed and incomplete. And that gets in the way of taking… Read More

Nov 10, 2022, 10:17 AM

Tech Moves: Seagen names new CEO; Amazon hires director of corporate development; and more

— Seattle biotech giant Seagen has appointed a new CEO, David Epstein, a former executive at Novartis. Epstein also joined… Read More

Nov 9, 2022, 10:26 AM

Seattle startup Joylux, which sell devices for menopausal women, raises more cash

Joylux, a Seattle-based startup that markets products to support the health of menopausal women, raised $5.5 million. The new cash… Read More

Nov 7, 2022, 10:18 AM

Tech Moves: Allen Institute hires COO; DexCare adds CTO; and more

— The Allen Institute appointed Chris Beaudoin as its new chief operations officer. Beaudoin was previously chief operating officer at… Read More

Nov 5, 2022, 8:00 AM

Startup partners with AI2 to help people access information in research studies

A new startup, Consensus, is partnering with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) to help make the information in… Read More

Nov 2, 2022, 7:36 AM

Health informatics startup Truveta unveils search engine to probe data from 70M patients

More than two years after its founding, health data startup Truveta released a platform Tuesday that provides access to information… Read More

Oct 31, 2022, 10:58 AM

Seattle startup developing therapies based on human milk to go public via SPAC merger

Seattle startup Intrinsic Medicine plans to go public through a merger with a shell company, Phoenix Biotech Acquisition Corp. The… Read More

Oct 29, 2022, 11:10 AM

Virtual care startup aiming to improve rural health via headsets raises cash

Hippo Technologies, a Vancouver, Wash.-area startup developing tech to connect patients in rural areas with specialists, raised seed funding from… Read More

Oct 28, 2022, 11:47 AM

Healthcare startup Gabbi lands $4.4M to help women assess breast cancer risk and take action

Gabbi, a Portland, Ore.-based startup building a tool to help women assess their risk for breast cancer, raised $4.4 million.… Read More

Oct 28, 2022, 10:43 AM

Seattle-area health data analytics company Advata lays off employees

Seattle-area health data analytics provider Advata, recently formed from the merger of six companies, is the latest tech company in… Read More

Oct 26, 2022, 8:04 AM

Exclusive: Google quietly acquired a Seattle digital health startup that built an app to monitor breathing

Google’s got a thing for Seattle health tech startups. The tech giant acquired Sound Life Sciences, a small University of… Read More

Oct 21, 2022, 8:00 AM

Combating burnout: Fred Hutch psychologist on how employers can support workers

The phrase “burnout” has taken on new meaning during the pandemic. Forty percent of people in 2020 said the pandemic… Read More

Oct 20, 2022, 9:06 AM

Life sciences entrepreneurs offer advice on launching and building startups

The University of Washington recently hosted a panel of five entrepreneurs to discuss what it takes to launch a life… Read More

Oct 19, 2022, 11:57 AM

Zymeworks and Jazz Pharmaceuticals ink $50M deal with potential for more

Zymeworks signed a deal with Jazz Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize Zymeworks’ lead drug candidate, zanidatamab, which targets the cancer… Read More

Oct 15, 2022, 10:24 AM

Naveen Jain’s microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome is raising more cash

Seattle-area microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome Life Sciences is raising more cash, according to a new regulatory filing. The filing… Read More

Oct 13, 2022, 6:00 AM

Providence spinout DexCare buys Womp, an e-commerce company that started as a snow report

DexCare, a spinout of Providence’s digital innovation group, has acquired commerce platform Womp Inc., a 12-year old Bellingham, Wash.-based startup.… Read More

Oct 12, 2022, 8:30 AM

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center receives ‘transformative’ $710.5M gift from the Bezos family

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Wednesday announced an enormous philanthropic gift of $710.5 million from Jackie and Mike Bezos, the… Read More

Oct 7, 2022, 11:25 AM

TwinStrand CEO and co-founder steps down from Seattle biotech startup amid reported layoffs

TwinStrand Biosciences’ co-founder Jesse Salk has stepped down from the CEO role, according to a statement issued by the Seattle… Read More

Oct 5, 2022, 12:38 PM

How Amazon’s tech and logistics prowess may disrupt healthcare — and spark concern

As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could… Read More

Sep 29, 2022, 4:20 PM

Promising data from large Alzheimer’s study bodes well for this Seattle startup

Alzheimer’s disease researchers were buoyed by positive data released Tuesday from a large clinical trial of an experimental therapy being… Read More

Sep 28, 2022, 3:20 PM

Startup developing a hand-held ultrasound tool for the bedside lands $57M

EchoNous, which markets a compact, AI-powered ultrasound tool, has raised $57 million. The funding was noted in a recent regulatory… Read More

Sep 28, 2022, 9:20 AM

Amazon’s new Halo Rise bedside device tracks sleep with radar sensor, low-power radio signals

Amazon unveiled a new bedside sleep-tracking device, Halo Rise, expanding its lineup of consumer health devices beyond wristbands for the… Read More