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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Adaptive co-founders Harlan (left) and Chad Robins on the plaza at the new Adaptive Biotechnology headquarters. After doubling its workforce during the pandemic, Adaptive Biotechnologies finally has room to grow. Harlan, former head of the the computational biology program at Fred Hutch, serves as chief scientific officer.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo). Lance Solomon.

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JUNE 30, 2021

The company, founded in 2011, began commercial operations in 2018 and now has partnerships with Merck, Xyphos Biotechnology, Alpha Cancer Technologies and several other drug companies. Three Washington state companies — Sana Biotechnology , Impel Neuropharma and Paymentus — have gone public with a traditional IPO this year.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Other former positions include leadership roles at the Gates Foundation and directing the global drug development program at PATH. Susan Wyrick of Sana Biotechnology. “It’s been a wonderful ride launching and leading this deep-tech startup mentorship program in Seattle for just over 3 years now.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Workplace of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders Harlan and Chad Robins; the Helion team; Impinj offices in Seattle; Treasury4 team; Blink CEO Karen Clark Cole. This year’s finalists are Adaptive Biotechnologies, Blink, Helion, Impinj and Treasury4. Blink Blink CEO Karen Clark Cole.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Under the agreement, Takeda has options to exclusively license programs at the preclinical stage and will take products to the clinic and through commercialization. Immusoft’s most advanced therapeutic program is designed to treat a rare enzyme deficiency disorder, Hurler syndrome.

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JULY 8, 2021

Absci is the latest in a string of Washington state biotech startups to test the public markets — others including Impel Neuropharma, Sana Biotechnology, Athira Pharma, and Silverback Therapeutics have had IPOs in the past year. The amount of investment that is pouring into biotechnology and the life sciences is incredible,” said Alexandre.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

How many will be accepted into the program? Strella Biotechnology Co-founder and CEO Katherine Sizov won GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch startup competition at the 2022 GeekWire Summit, with a unique sensing technology that reduces food waste by determining what? Steuart Walton. GeekWire story: Scramble the fighters! Amazon’s Treasure Truck.

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JULY 19, 2021

Two others Washington state biotech companies, Absci and Icosavax , have also recently filed to go public, building on IPOs earlier this year from Sana Biotechnology , Impel Neuropharma and Lyell Immunopharma, which is based in South San Francisco and the Seattle area. Eliem’s tech. Via SEC filing).

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JANUARY 9, 2023

In Washington state, Absci , Zymeworks , TwinStrand Biosciences , NanoString Technologies , Neoleukin Therapeutics and Sana Biotechnology all shed employees in 2022. Along with the layoffs, the company is de-prioritizing a program for glioblastoma and a discovery program for blood cancers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

based biotechnology company struck a deal with Merck in which the pharmaceutical powerhouse will provide a $600 million upfront payment and make a $1 billion equity investment to continue development of treatments for breast cancer. Seattle Genetics CEO Clay Siegall. Seattle Genetics Photo).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Founder pedigree: Kiem, who is director of the Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Program at the Fred Hutch, and Lieber, a professor with the UW’s Division of Medical Genetics, will be scientific co-founders of Ensoma. In 2019, Kiem gave a TEDxSeattle talk on the science involved.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Local immunotherapy biotech companies include Umoja Biopharma, Sana Biotechnology, Chinook Therapeutics, Kineta, Alpine Immune Sciences, Adaptive Biotechnologies, and others.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — Adaptive Biotechnologies named Kyle Piskel as its new chief financial officer. Techstars announced one month later that it was shutting down the Seattle program. F5 reported $693 million in revenue for its most recent quarter, down 1% year-over-year.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It has three clinical programs to treat gastrointestinal diseases including C. Lumen is led by Finrow, a former senior vice president at Adaptive Biotechnologies, and Chief Science Officer Jim Roberts , the former head of basic sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute. They co-founded the startup in 2017.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Sana Biotechnology raised $587 million in its IPO, Absci pulled in $200 million, and vaccine company Icosavax raised more than $180 million. The pandemic also led to growth of regional companies such as Adaptive Biotechnologies, which doubled its workforce during the pandemic as it supported vaccine development and built a COVID-19 test.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

… Read More Meet the 24 new startups in Techstars Seattle, as accelerator doubles class size Startup accelerator program Techstars Seattle on Monday unveiled 24 companies for its 15th cohort, doubling the class size from last year’s dozen graduates. A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Sunday evening at 7:21 p.m.

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MARCH 9, 2023

The program was shuttered “based on a review of the preliminary data, the expected benefit to risk ratio for patients, and recent developments in the field of IL-2 therapeutics,” according to a November company statement. IL-2 can quell cancer but it can also have toxic effects, which Neoleukin’s protein aimed to to minimize.

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MAY 20, 2021

The program will start in November at the UW. (UW It will host a 9-month program this November for 20-to-25 companies in partnership with Microsoft and the University of Washington’s business, engineering, and computer science schools. “This is the track,” Dooley said.

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MARCH 10, 2023

The news is a bright spot for Seattle’s biopharma scene which has seen employee cuts at several biotech companies recently as part of wider layoffs in the industry, including at NanoString Technologies , Sana Biotechnology , Eliem Therapeutics and Neoleukin Therapeutics. It reported $19.3 billion in revenue for 2022, up from $18.5

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APRIL 18, 2023

The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. A fifth company is the brainchild of a founder previously at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI).

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) Editor’s note: William Canestaro is managing director at Seattle venture capital firm WRF Capital and leads the biotechnology investment team. Seagen has a huge pipeline for early programs and is undisputedly the anchor tenant in Pacific Northwest biotech. William Canestaro. He worked to grow the Bothell, Wash.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cyrus Biotechnology has several drug discovery and development partnerships and also sells Cyrus Bench, a software platform for protein engineering. Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology is entering a protein engineering collaboration with Boston-based Selecta Biosciences that could pull in up to $1.5 Cyrus Photo). Cyrus CEO Lucas Nivon.

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MARCH 18, 2021

This included the eight-week Family Tech Support Center program, funded by a Tableau Foundation grant, which assisted families with IT challenges and sought to maximize the impact of Amazon’s donation of 9,000 laptops to families. Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies appointed Leslie Trigg and Katey Owen to its board of directors.

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JUNE 23, 2021

A new genetic engineering approach overcomes this barrier, according to a report at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research by scientists at the University of Washington and Sana Biotechnology, a Seattle-based company. Murry’s research was conducted primarily at the UW, with financial support from Sana.

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MAY 6, 2023

There’s a fourth biotech company being born, said Olson, who also heads the Invent at Seattle Children’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program to train students underrepresented in science for careers in biotechnology. I think stepping back and not casting a founder shadow is really important.”

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

He’s now CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, and he’s not taking any big chances in the current economic downturn. Earlier companies are considering fewer development programs and having a slower ramp on hiring. Neoleukin Therapeutics recently shed staff in the wake of disappointing clinical data for its lead program, for example.

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JULY 26, 2021

The company’s “honor roll” program has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars and, in some cases, nearly $1 million to healthcare systems that implement technical upgrades, including the algorithms. “It One analysis of the sepsis algorithm, which Epic says works 76 percent of the time, found it was only right 63 percent of the time.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Sana Photo) — Dhaval Patel joined Sana Biotechnology as executive vice president and chief scientific officer. Paron previously spent more than eight years at Shopify, where he held roles including senior lead for sustainability programs, head of community relations and head of social impact. The company is ranked No.

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JULY 21, 2020

“We realized that we may be on to a rapid response vaccine to the COVID-19, so we quickly accelerated that program forward,” said Deborah Fuller , a professor of microbiology and a vaccinologist. LION was developed by the Seattle biotechnology company HDT Bio; Amit P. Kandhar is the lead formulation developer of LION.

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JULY 13, 2021

In addition, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center would oversee the clinical oncology programs at both the center and UW Medical Center, according to a press release. Under the new arrangement, all SCCA clinical sites would be renamed “Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.”.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

She was on the forefront of the biotechnology future. She spends her time as an advisor at IPD as well as a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a program housed at the UW’s Foster School of Business that helps startups in computational health. “I I do really enjoy teaching,” she said. “I’ve

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Nautilus Biotechnology hired Karl Voss as vice president of life sciences research and development. Based in Seattle, Nautilus Biotechnology is led by Isilon Systems co-founder Sujal Patel and went public via a SPAC merger in June. The announcement comes a few weeks after Instabase joined the Microsoft for Startups program.

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MARCH 12, 2022

Adaptive Biotechnologies had recently doubled its headcount as it turned to COVID-19 projects, but on Wednesday the Seattle company laid off 12% of its workforce, about 100 employees. We’ve rounded up other recent life sciences and health tech news in the Pacific Northwest below: Joyce Yen, head of the UW ADVANCE program. (UW

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

David Shoultz , formerly head of Neoleukin’s COVID-19 program, was tapped as COO and co-founder. The Monod team will use the funds to mature and expand its platform, generate new biosensors for additional targets in biotechnology and health, and build prototypes to detect targets in real-world applications. He didn’t have to look far.

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MAY 18, 2023

Program schedule : VIP finalist reception at 4:30 p.m. The Awards program — the Oscars of the Northwest tech scene — will begin at 7 p.m., Workplace of the Year, presented by JLL • Helion • Impinj • Adaptive Biotechnologies • Blink UX • Treasury4 Read about the five finalists here. Do I need ID to enter? This is a 21+ event.

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JULY 15, 2021

Seattle is known for its strength in cell therapy, notes Modulus chief scientist Max Darnell , with growing biotech companies such as Sana Biotechnology and Lyell Immunopharma, as well as an arm of Bristol Myers Squib. “We want to be this discovery player that can plug into these larger incumbents,” he said.

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