Articles about Fred Ramsdell

From the ‘scurfy’ mouse to the Nobel Prize: How a Seattle biotech pioneer’s long game paid off

From a Bill Gates-backed startup in the mid ’90s to the Nobel stage in 2025, Fred Ramsdell reveals how “patient capital” and a mutation found in a 1940s mouse helped unlock immune system secrets. Read More

How a scrappy biotech startup backed by Microsoft’s co-founders set the stage for two Nobel winners

The groundbreaking immunology research behind two Nobel Prizes awarded this week traces back to a largely forgotten biotech startup backed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Read More

‘Seattle biotech is on fire’: Industry produces three Nobel Prize winners in two years

Mary Brunkow of the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, and David Baker of the UW’s Institute for Protein Design were honored for their research. Read More

Seattle scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell win Nobel Prize for immunology research

Seattle scientist Mary Brunkow of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) won a Nobel Prize for research on the immune cells that prevent our body from attacking itself. Read More