GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

New Athira execs Mark Worthington, general counsel, and Rachel Lenington, chief technology officer and head of product development strategy. Athira Pharma recently appointed Rachel Lenington as CTO and head of product development strategy and Mark Worthington as general counsel. Athira Photos). The Bothell, Wash.-based Read the story.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The nonprofit Mars Society is getting set to take the next giant leap in its mission to support Red Planet exploration and settlement, by establishing a Mars Technology Institute to develop the tools and processes those settlers will need. A computer-generated image shows an early Mars settlement.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CaaMTech , a Seattle-area startup developing new psychedelic agents, has raised $22 million in funding, the company announced this week. CaaMTech is developing a suite of tryptamines with the aim of finding mixes that “optimize desired effects while minimizing unwanted side-effects,” according to the company’s website.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The funding will fuel Alpine’s program developing ALPN-303, designed to treat lupus and other inflammatory diseases. That payment is part of a licensing deal inked last year with the pharmaceutical giant for clinical testing of another immune-modulating agent, ALPN-101, for lupus.

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2020

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rose more than 10% Friday after the Seattle-based biotech company inked a $60 million licensing deal with pharmaceutical giant AbbVie for its lupus drug. million Americans.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is a major shift for the country that is the European headquarters for many large US pharmaceutical companies, as well as tech firms, including Google, Apple, and Facebook. Companies typically create Irish subsidiaries of their companies that license their intellectual property, on which the subsidiary pays royalties.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

AltPep is developing tools and treatments for diseases caused by amyloid proteins that are incorrectly folded and create harmful deposits. The UW has licensed the exclusive rights of this intellectual property to the startup. Another Seattle-area biotech startup, Athira Pharma, is also developing treatments for Alzheimer’s.

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GeekWire

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. billion if development milestones are met, and another $1.75

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

The company plans to apply those technologies in the development of software-as-a-service products for the enterprise, tackling problems such as cybersecurity, navigation, and drug discovery. Or of formulas and know-how and trade secrets at pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Hidary, an energetic figure, is a serial entrepreneur.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

On March 21, CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) told attendees at the company’s online-only developer conference, GTC 2023, about a string of new services Nvidia hopes enterprises will use to train and run their own generative AI models. As the generative AI bandwagon gathers pace , Nvidia is promising tools to accelerate it still further.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2021

Double strands of innovation: TwinStrand, which spun out of the University of Washington, has developed technology in both gene sequencing and analyzing sequencing results to help it find what the company calls “genetic needles in the haystack.” Total venture capital funding is now north of $70 million for the 6-year-old company.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Founded in 2018, Vouched helps companies verify the identity of customers and users by examining driver’s licenses and other forms of identification. AGC Biologics is a “Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization” that helps companies develop and produce pharmaceuticals and other medical treatments.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“When I founded the company, I never really expected to get a product on the market to patients,” said Hoekman, who served as CEO until 2017 and is now chief technology and development officer. It’s been a “big challenge to shift from a device technology-focused company to what is now a pretty integrated pharmaceutical company,” said Hoekman.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“David said, ‘Well, George, if we do this, no one’s going to develop it for you. They licensed the AbC technology from UW and incorporated Archon Biosciences in 2023. … Have you ever thought about starting a company?'” ” Ueda recalled. “I said, ‘No, but I can’t not do this.’

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington is a startup factory , spinning out companies developing new protein-based therapeutics, industrial enzymes, materials, biosensors and more. billion acquisition of IPD spinout Icosavax, which develops vaccines.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

The investment firm’s team includes senior associate Dasom (Christine) Yoo , former Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center business development manager. However, the company said the papers containing altered images were not cited in its patent filing for its lead development candidate, ATH-1017. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 12, 2024

To make a profit, yes, but also to support the development of technologies needed to sustain settlements on the Red Planet. Varda has been working on a space-based manufacturing system that processes materials in orbit to produce pharmaceuticals, with the finished products shipped back down to Earth.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 30, 2007

Open innovation , the most talked-about development in corporate innovation, is fundamentally based on tapping external networks. Examples included Cisco’s extended network, value flows in the pharmaceutical industry and an engineering firm, among others. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. He’s also a senior scientist at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,

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MAY 22, 2006

Each of these companies has developed fairly mature offerings, and gained traction in the corporate marketplace, with a number of leading audit firms, investment banks, and pharmaceutical companies in the process of implementing their software. See some screenshots here. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 10, 2008

Executive Forum , one of the showcased companies, Janssen-Cilag, an Australian pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, gave us a snapshot of an internal tool they’ve developed called Jitter (see Nathan Wallace’s presentation and resources on his blog ), which is essentially Twitter for the enterprise.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

So you buy a processing unit design from somebody like Arm in the UK, who is very popular, and then maybe you need the USB interface, so you get a USB IP block, which you license. So you decide, “I want to build a controller chip.” And by the way, DARPA had funded pandemic preparedness research at Moderna half a decade ago.

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Vox

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Neuralink, a startup co-founded by Musk in 2016, aims to develop a brain chip implant that it claims could one day help paralyzed people walk and blind people see. The same goes for inventing important new medical devices, pharmaceutical drugs, and vaccines. It’s what Winders calls “animal experimentation exceptionalism.”.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Intimate relationships now can be developed online via email, text messaging and phone sex, and they can be ended this way, too. Printing gave rise to the production of "penny dreadfuls," while one of the early developments of still photography was the "what the butler saw" machine. At the time this article was written, a U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

But even more important is to think about the technologies you are developing for the next long phase, which is about Resilience for the future. And I’ll earn my A-class license on iRacing…. The tech industry has contributed to polarization through the various social media platforms that we developed. The tech backlash is real.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2022

to come out firmly for the TRIPS [intellectual property] waivers so that we could license these vaccines around the globe, wherever there was capacity, and make sure that we could produce them in other countries. . “The U.S. and all of the other wealthier countries have to put a lot more money in.” That is really critical.

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Vox

AUGUST 1, 2023

Indeed, the US government’s record to date on AI has mostly involved vague calls for “continued United States leadership in artificial intelligence research and development” or “adoption of artificial intelligence technologies in the Federal Government,” which is fine, but not exactly concrete policy. Principles, rather than programming.

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