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Biotech

Gene therapy biotech startup Immusoft acquires Discovery Genomics

Immusoft, a Seattle-based biotech startup that has developed a way to manipulate human immune cells, today announced the acquisition of… Read More

Charlie Sheen shows interest in CytoDyn, which just raised $33M to develop ‘functional cure’ for HIV

If you are one of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, your treatment options are basically limited to taking… Read More

CRISPR technology

Editas Medicine raises $94M in first gene-editing IPO, and then stock price rises

Editas Medicine’s entry into the stock market with a $94.4 million initial public offering appears to be sparking positive signals… Read More

Image: Illumina sequencer

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos invest in Grail, Illumina’s $100M cancer testing venture

One of the giants of gene sequencing, Illumina, has spun off a new $100 million company called Grail to create… Read More

Editas' Feng Zhang with student

Gates-backed Editas Medicine files for IPO, marking CRISPR gene-editing milestone

Editas Medicine filed the paperwork for an initial public offering today, marking a first for the growing number of private… Read More

Juno Therapeutics misses expectations in Q3 with $1.6M revenue, $47.6M net loss

Juno Therapeutics missed analyst expectations with its Q3 earnings report on Tuesday, posting a net loss of $47.6 million, or… Read More

Fast-growing scientific wellness startup Arivale hires BlueKai co-founder as chief revenue officer

Arivale, the “scientific wellness” startup co-founded by genomics pioneer Lee Hood, has hired Grant Ries, the co-founder of big-data company BlueKai,… Read More

Life science investment group Accelerator Corp. completes $62.8M in funding for biotech startups

Seattle-based Accelerator Corp. will be looking to spend a ton of money on biotech startups soon, but not only in the… Read More

Washington biotech trade association CEO Chris Rivera to step down after helping to build life science community in Seattle region

Chris Rivera is stepping down as president and CEO of the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, a nonprofit biotech trade group. He… Read More

Juno Therapeutics posts $66M Q2 loss, looks to gain ground with first clinical trials

Juno Therapeutics, a Seattle-based cancer research firm backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Arch Venture Partners and others, reported a loss… Read More

Kineta wins $4M award to develop therapies against viral diseases like Ebola, influenza, others

Seattle-based biotech startup Kineta today announced that it won a $4 million federal contract from the National Institute of Allergy and… Read More

Tech Moves: Cyanogen snags Amazon exec; Veghte named SurveyMonkey CEO; Ossia expands; and more

—Cyanogen, the makers of modified versions of Android for mobile devices, has snagged two executives from Amazon and Qualcomm to expand international… Read More

Bristol-Myers Squibb relocating 40 Seattle scientists to San Francisco five years after acquiring ZymoGenetics

Five years after coming to Seattle via its purchase of ZymoGenetics, drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb is moving 40 Seattle-based research and… Read More

Genomics pioneer Lee Hood to unveil new startup Arivale, breaking new ground in ‘scientific wellness’

Lee Hood, the genomics pioneer who has co-founded more than a dozen biotech companies, is preparing to unveil a new startup, GeekWire… Read More

Stratos Genomics raises another $15M for DNA sequencing technology

Seattle-based biotech company Stratos Genomics has raised another $15 million to complete a $30 million Series B round. Founded in… Read More

Kineta and partners raising funds to ‘break out of the old biotech model’

A consortium that includes Seattle-based biotech company Kineta, UW Medicine, and the University of Washington’s CoMotion group is seeking to raise an… Read More

NanoString Technologies misses estimates as losses deepen

NanoString Technologies, a Seattle-based biotech company focused on developing cancer treatments, faced deepening losses this quarter as the company missed… Read More

Funding for Life Sciences Discovery Fund at risk, again, despite program’s success

Every April, there was to be a show of symmetry in Washington state. This month, Big Tobacco made its annual… Read More

Cerevast tops off round with $1.4M more to end at $11.4M raised

Medical device company Cerevast Therapeutics has topped off a Series C funding round with an additional $1.4 million. Cerevast, based… Read More

Veteran biotech journalist Luke Timmerman launches subscription news site

Luke Timmerman, a respected biotechnology journalist known for his past work at The Seattle Times and Xconomy, today launched a new subscription-based biotech news… Read More

Redmond’s Vesiflo secures $650,000 for catheter alternative

Medical device maker Vesiflo has secured $650,000 in funding ahead of its commercial launch later this year. The Redmond-based company,… Read More

NanoString expands office and lab space

NanoString, a 12-year-old Seattle company whose tools help genetic researchers better analyze genes and molecules, is expanding its footprint in… Read More

Juno Therapeutics files for IPO, a year after founding, seeking $150M for cancer breakthroughs

Juno Therapeutics, a heavily funded biotech company with a novel approach to fighting cancer, filed plans for an initial public… Read More

Seattle biotech Dendreon files for bankruptcy, considers sale

Dendreon, a once-promising Seattle biotech company developing treatments for prostate cancer, today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It marks… Read More

Beyond Ebola: Infectious disease has gone global, health experts warn

The arrival of Ebola in the U.S. should serve as a high-profile reminder of how quickly — and inevitably — infectious disease… Read More

Immusoft raises cash from Tim Draper, others to program human cells that fight diseases

Applying computer science principles to human anatomy may end up producing a medical breakthrough if one Seattle startup has its way.… Read More

Betting on biotech: Big new lab building set to break ground in Seattle, despite Amgen’s exit

Biotech giant Amgen’s decision to close down its waterfront campus in Seattle isn’t stopping one real estate company from forging… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amgen and the state of Seattle biotech, with guest Luke Timmerman

Amgen dealt a blow to Seattle’s biotech industry last week with the announcement that it will be closing its large research-and-development campus… Read More

Cancer research company Immune Design raises $60M in IPO

Trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker IMDZ, Seattle biotech company Immune Design today priced its initial public offering at… Read More

Cardiac Insight lands $7M Series B led by Welch Allyn

Cardiac Insight has raised a $7 million Series B round, led by medical device manufacturer Welch Allyn, according to a… Read More

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