Health/Life Sciences – Page 8 of 57

Apr 18, 2023, 10:48 AM

Gates Foundation gives $9.35M to Seattle digital health nonprofit for diagnostic testing

Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere will advance its technology to improve the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests with $9.35 million… Read More

Apr 18, 2023, 8:00 AM

Washington state lawmakers pass bill to protect privacy of consumer health data

Washington state lawmakers finalized passage of a bill Monday that provides privacy protections for consumer health data. The bill protects… Read More

Apr 17, 2023, 5:27 PM

Seagen filing details M&A negotiations with several companies before $43B Pfizer deal

Seagen fielded multiple offers before agreeing to a whopping $43 billion acquisition by pharma giant Pfizer. The Seattle-area company revealed… Read More

Apr 13, 2023, 6:00 AM

This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data

Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy. To get to the gold, Truveta… Read More

Apr 12, 2023, 10:21 AM

Vancouver, B.C., tissue ‘bioprinting’ company inks $75M deal with Novo Nordisk for diabetes, obesity

Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company Aspect Biosystems inked a partnership worth potentially more than $2.6 billion with Danish biopharma giant Novo… Read More

Apr 11, 2023, 10:25 AM

Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more

— Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, the company said today in a regulatory… Read More

Apr 10, 2023, 12:56 PM

Report highlights growth of life sciences sector in Seattle, buoyed by NIH funding

Life sciences employment and federal research funding have grown rapidly in the Seattle area since 2019, according to a new… Read More

Apr 3, 2023, 12:48 PM

The inspiration behind a new diversity program for biotech in Seattle

When Eric Nealy returned from a workshop with other Black scientists, his perspective changed. The experience gave him a new… Read More

Mar 30, 2023, 8:21 AM

Microsoft Research head Peter Lee on the applications of GPT-4 in medicine and life sciences

Peter Lee has spent a lot of time recently with GPT-4, the AI-powered tool that simulates human conversation, built by… Read More

Mar 28, 2023, 4:30 AM

Sonoma Bio inks $75M deal with Regeneron to advance cell therapies against autoimmunity

The news: Sonoma Biotherapeutics is partnering with Regeneron to co-develop cell therapies for Crohn’s disease and other autoimmune conditions. The… Read More

Mar 23, 2023, 2:43 PM

Q&A with Seagen founder Clay Siegall on the Pfizer deal and his new biotech startup

Clay Siegall is proud of his legacy as co-founder and longtime CEO of Seagen, the largest biotech company in the… Read More

Mar 22, 2023, 4:16 PM

Seagen founder Clay Siegall is back in biotech as CEO of Purdue University spinout

Seagen founder Clay Siegall is jumping back into the biotech world as CEO and president of Morphimmune. Founded in 2020,… Read More

Mar 20, 2023, 10:24 AM

Microsoft subsidiary Nuance is using GPT-4 for a new physician notes app

Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for… Read More

Mar 17, 2023, 8:52 AM

Biotech experts wary of Pfizer cutting Seagen workforce — but history reveals silver lining

Seattle-area biotech experts are eying the past warily in the wake of this week’s news that Pfizer plans to acquire… Read More

Mar 15, 2023, 11:40 AM

Tech Moves: Microsoft names lead independent director; startup vet Rebecca Lovell joins Greater Seattle Partners

— Rebecca Lovell was named chief operating officer of Greater Seattle Partners, a public-private sector initiative that seeks to attract… Read More

Mar 13, 2023, 6:52 PM

How Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen could impact the biotech industry in Seattle

Biopharma acquisitions often come with layoffs and lab shutdowns as smaller companies get absorbed. Whether that happens to Seagen is… Read More

Mar 13, 2023, 8:22 AM

Pfizer will acquire Seattle-area biotech giant Seagen for $43 billion

Pfizer is buying Seattle-area biotech giant Seagen in a massive $43 billion deal announced Monday. The deal is the largest… Read More

Mar 10, 2023, 8:20 AM

Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech company Moderna is opening an office in Seattle to build up its tech capacity, the company announced… Read More

Mar 9, 2023, 7:21 AM

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

Neoleukin Therapeutics is slashing its workforce by about 70% as it seeks “strategic alternatives” for its future, according to a… Read More

Mar 8, 2023, 5:00 AM

Seattle-area startup using AI for mental health screening tech raises $8M

The news: Seattle-area healthcare startup Aiberry raised $8 million for its AI-powered software that analyzes audio, visual, and language from… Read More

Mar 6, 2023, 5:32 PM

Healthcare company Accolade lays off workers and closes offices

Seattle and Philadelphia area-based primary healthcare company Accolade is cutting its workforce and closing or reducing some facilities, according to… Read More

Mar 6, 2023, 10:10 AM

Seattle healthcare startup 98point6 selling part of its business for $100M to Transcarent

Healthcare company 98point6 is selling a portion of its business to San Francisco-based startup Transcarent for $100 million in cash… Read More

Mar 4, 2023, 8:11 AM

Endometriosis test wins top prize at Univ. of Washington health innovation competition

University of Washington students developing a potential test for endometriosis took home the top prize Thursday at the 8th annual… Read More

Mar 1, 2023, 3:46 PM

Novo Nordisk laying off 86 workers as part of lab shutdown in Seattle

Danish multinational biopharma company Novo Nordisk is laying off 86 employees in Seattle, according to a new filing with the… Read More

Mar 1, 2023, 10:46 AM

UW forms medical data science institute focused on AI, machine learning, healthcare

There’s a new institute brewing at the University of Washington at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and healthcare.… Read More

Feb 28, 2023, 5:00 AM

Ex-Amazon Pharmacy manager leads new startup aiming to help contractors save on medication

A new startup born out of Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle wants to help independent workers — including those who don’t… Read More

Feb 27, 2023, 9:03 AM

Seagen stock rises as Pfizer reportedly in talks to acquire Seattle-area biotech giant

Biopharma giant Pfizer is eyeing an acquisition of Seagen, the biggest biotech company in the Seattle area, according to a report in… Read More

Feb 20, 2023, 8:35 AM

Washington state lawmakers seek to further curb drug prices as biotech leaders raise alarm

Lawmakers in Washington state are considering legislation that would give a governor-appointed board extra authority to curtail the price of… Read More

Feb 10, 2023, 7:00 AM

Seattle institute lands $9.9M to develop nasal spray vaccine against bird flu

A Seattle organization devoted to infectious diseases, the Access to Advanced Health Institute, is aiming to develop an RNA-based nasal… Read More

Feb 9, 2023, 2:07 PM

Washington state lawmakers seek to ban at-home rape test kits after AG takes aim at startup

Washington state lawmakers are considering a bill to ban over-the-counter sexual assault test kits that critics say give false hope… Read More