Articles about Biotech – Page 8 of 8

Seattle biotech firm Kineta raises $1.6 million to boost its battle against disease

Kineta, a Seattle-based biotech startup, has raised an investment round worth almost $1.6 million from existing investors in the company.… Read More

Stratos Genomics lands investment, secures partnership with biotech giant Roche

Seattle biotech company Stratos Genomics today announced a new partnership with Roche, a Switzerland-based biotech giant. Roche has made a strategic investment… Read More

Stratos Genomics raises $10M for DNA sequencing technology

Stratos Genomics, a Seattle-based biotech company, has raised $10 million of a $16.3 million series B round. CEO Allan Stephan confirmed… Read More

Tacoma biotech Revalesio raising $40M to develop cures for inflammatory diseases

Tacoma may not be the first place you think of when biotechnology comes to mind, but one company from the… Read More

Cardiac Dimensions raises $20M to sell heart-valve repair technology

AlCardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland-based company building heart-valve repair technology, today announced a $20 million round of financing led by M. H.… Read More

UW spin-out Oricula Therapeutics raises cash to sell medicine that prevents hearing loss

Oricula Therapeutics, a startup spun out of the University of Washington, has raised $122,000 to commercialize medicine that can help… Read More

More funding for cancer research in Seattle: Adaptive Biotechnologies raises $105M

Researchers from Seattle who are finding ways to eliminate cancer are bringing in some serious funding today. On the same… Read More

Alder BioPharma files for $115M IPO, looks to use cash for migraine and arthritis treatments

Seattle has seen a strong string of IPOs in the past few years — from Zillow to Tableau to Zulily.… Read More

Seattle biotech company Acucela preps for $125M IPO on Tokyo Exchange

Seattle biotechnology company Acucela is prepping for a $125 million IPO on the Tokyo Exchange. An SEC filing published today reveals… Read More

Calling all scientists: Seattle’s first biotech hackerspace opens Friday

DIYbio in Seattle might just be back from the dead. Two years ago, a group of science enthusiasts tried to… Read More

Tech Moves: Prevencio lands biotech vets; Lively hires music vets; DomainTools nabs Roberts

—Prevencio, an early-stage biotech company working on cardiac biomarker tests, has named H. Perry Fell as chairman and Rhonda Rhyne… Read More

Bruce Montgomery biotech startup Cardeas Pharma raises $34 million

It has been a good week for the Seattle life sciences community. On Monday, Seattle genomics tool maker NanoString Technologies… Read More

This 16-year-old is spearheading Seattle’s first biotech hackerspace

Katriona Guthrie-Honea had a great idea. Last year, as a freshman at Ingraham High School in Seattle, she taught herself enough… Read More

Former oil trader, Yankees part-owner invests in Kineta

Seattle-based biotech upstart Kineta announced a new investment partnership with RLB Holdings, a Connecticut-based investment firm that partially owns the… Read More

Report: Cardeas Pharma raises $5M

Cardeas Pharma, a biotechnology company led by Seattle biotech entrepreneur Bruce Montgomery, has reeled in $5 million in venture financing… Read More

Gates keeps the bar high in push for malaria eradication

Addressing the Malaria Forum in downtown Seattle this morning, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was back in the… Read More

Biotech veteran Henney inducted into Hall of Fame

Biotech pioneer Christopher Henney has been inducted into the industry’s Hall of Fame, with the announcement made at the annual… Read More

Man vs. mosquito: How science is taking aim at malaria now

Seattle is the center of the battle against malaria this week, as scientists and global health leaders descend on the… Read More

Dendreon cuts 500 jobs, sheds a quarter of its workforce

Slower-than-expected uptake of its Provenge prostate cancer drug forced Seattle biotech company Dendreon to announce 500 job cuts this afternoon,… Read More

Tech Moves: Datacastle hires Craig Blessing; Opscode co-founder Jesse Robbins honored; and more

Datacastle, a Seattle company that helps organizations securely protect data as employees access corporate resources via the Web and mobile… Read More

Seattle biotech star Dendreon cuts outlook, signals layoffs

Dendreon, one of the great hopes of Seattle’s biotech industry, today reduced its financial projections for the year and said… Read More

A Hubble Telescope for the immune system: Seattle’s Adaptive TCR raises $5.8M

Adaptive TCR, a Seattle company that’s attempting to profile and measure the body’s immune system, has raised $5.8 million in… Read More