Tech Moves: Starbucks names CFO; Avanade bolsters C-suite; Tune Therapeutics gets CEO — Starbucks announced Cathy Smith as its chief financial officer. Smith was most recently at Nordstrom for two years, and… Read More
Trump’s push to freeze funding leaves researchers anxious about delayed scientific breakthroughs When Luca Foschini, head of Seattle’s Sage Bionetworks, described the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze federal grants… Read More
New website helps engineers find biomedical challenges that crown winning algorithms There are lots of tasks in biomedicine that are more accurately and efficiently accomplished by a computer than a person… Read More
Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more — Graham Sheldon, former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an… Read More
Seattle nonprofit Sage Bionetworks joins $37M national effort to hunt for Alzheimer’s drugs Seattle-based nonprofit Sage Bionetworks is leading a heavily funded national effort to find new drugs to fight Alzheimer’s, a disease… Read More
Working Geek: Sage CTO Michael Kellen builds software for medical collaboration and crowdsourcing As chief technology officer for Sage Bionetworks, Michael Kellen has the rare opportunity to merge the commercial drive of a… Read More
Working Geek: Sage Bionetworks’ Lara Mangravite brings scientists together to speed discovery Scientists aren’t known for playing well with others. After all, their world is set up to reward individual accomplishments through… Read More
$1.2M crowdsourced contest aims to improve breast-cancer detection through deep machine learning Breast-cancer screening using mammograms certainly saves lives, but too many women receive false positives from the test and — even… Read More
DNA quest finds 13 mystery ‘superheroes’ who are shielded from genetic diseases Hundreds of diseases have been linked to genetic factors, but now scientists say they’ve found some people who stay healthy… Read More
