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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. million shares of common stock and 3.2

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JUNE 19, 2020

The 15-week program targets early stage companies for “cleantech-specific” instruction, mentoring, and support in business planning, manufacturing products, and building a customer base. Participants are from startups that address energy use, toxic chemical removal, biofuels, waste reduction, and other green-leaning technologies.

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APRIL 21, 2023

De La Rosa was previously an executive director at Enanta Pharmaceuticals, where he helped clinical development of assets for RSV, SARS-CoV-2, and HBV. De La Rosa also held leadership roles at Abbot, Takeda and Janssen, where he led the development of assets for HIV, HCV, RSV, and the Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine program.

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MAY 12, 2021

And during his first year, Sanath and Ramya tried so hard to help their son grow and develop like a typical child. And the doctors were able to successfully petition the FDA to let them use another drug that a pharmaceutical company was developing for a different disease. He’s adorable. He needed a feeding tube to eat.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Notch Therapeutics is commercializing technologies developed in the labs of Juan-Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, left, chair of Notch’s scientific advisory board, and Chief Scientific Officer Peter Zandstra. The biotech company was founded in 2018 and is developing stem cell-derived immunotherapies for cancer. Notch Photo).

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MAY 21, 2021

ZoomInfo uses machine learning to help customers drive sales and marketing programs and went public last year. Portland-based Sparrow Pharmaceuticals named Robert Jacks its president and CEO after closing a $50 million Series A financing round led by healthcare investment firm OrbiMed. based SaaS company.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Presage has existing partnerships with healthcare heavy hitters Takeda Pharmaceutical, Celgene and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). Fred Hutch roots: Presage launched in 2009 as a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spinoff built on technology developed by Fred Hutch oncologist Dr. Jim Olson. He became CEO in 2018.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs. Impel Pharmaceuticals CFO Michael Kalb is stepping down at the end of this year. Adrian Adams , Impel’s former CEO, resigned last month.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

AltPep is developing tools and treatments for diseases caused by amyloid proteins that are incorrectly folded and create harmful deposits. AltPrep is currently focused on Alzheimer’s and developing tools that can detect the illness even before someone is symptomatic. Athira went public last year.

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

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JUNE 7, 2021

The approval on Monday of the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly two decades — Biogen’s aducanumab — helps shine a light on a path forward for other companies developing Alzheimer’s therapies, including Seattle-based Athira Pharma , which saw its stock rise more than 4% off the Biogen news.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

“David said, ‘Well, George, if we do this, no one’s going to develop it for you. James and George have assembled a team of world-class scientists and pharmaceutical industry veterans that is able to create new preclinical molecules with extraordinary speed and accuracy,” Picardo said. ” Ueda recalled.

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How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement. Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020 - FCW.com (blog) FCW (Today) Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020FCW.com (blog)WHAT: The U.S.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. That’s why critics say these programs are always listening; if they weren’t, they’d never know when you need them.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Black conducted dozens of interviews with epidemiologists around the world to get a sense of the challenges they were facing, and what she heard helped shape the 10 recommendations listed in the paper published today: Support data hygiene and interoperability by developing and adopting a consistent data model.

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architect vs. data scientist According to Dataversity , the data architect and data scientist roles are related, but data architects focus on translating business requirements into technology requirements, defining data standards and principles, and building the model-development frameworks for data scientists to use.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The new arrangement created a single institution that combined research and patient care and also serves as University of Washington Medicine’s cancer program. AGC Biologics is a “Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization” that helps companies develop and produce pharmaceuticals and other medical treatments.

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JULY 18, 2023

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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JUNE 5, 2023

In contrast to a linear economy where resources are extracted, used, and tossed in landfills, a circular economy focuses on developing longer-lasting products that can be easily reused, repaired, repurposed and recycled. One possible way to do that is by embracing the idea of a circular economy.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Rubinstein joined Adaptive in 2011 as senior vice president of corporate and business development and became president seven years later. She previously held commercial development roles at Pfizer. Members include: Sonoma co-founder Alexander Rudensky , chair of the immunology program at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The system found halicin in a fraction of the time that traditional methods would take, said Bowen Lou, an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut’s School of Business who studies how AI is changing the pharmaceutical industry. The fact that 90 percent of drugs fail in the clinic tells us that there’s room for improvement.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Pultz spent her time at the UW and afterward on the cutting edge of protein design, a fast-moving field using state-of-the-art technology to develop new therapeutics, vaccines, biosensors, materials and more. Through connections facilitated by the UW, Takeda Pharmaceuticals caught wind of PvP Biologics. “We

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Intrinsic Medicine was founded in 2018 to develop sugar-based molecules matching those in human milk. The SPAC merger would have fueled a phase 2 clinical trial testing an oligosaccharide for patients with irritable bowel syndrome, and supported preclinical programs for atopic dermatitis, autism spectrum disorder, and rheumatoid arthritis.

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JULY 19, 2021

Eliem has two lead drug candidates in development: ETX-810 for chronic pain conditions and ETX-155 for mood disorders and epilepsy. Elieum’s ETX-810 program builds on previous clinical studies, by other groups, of a compound called PEA. -based company was founded in 2019 and plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol ELYM.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

IonQ Illustration) IonQ has opened up its most advanced quantum computing platform for public availability through Amazon’s cloud-based Braket Direct Program , even as the Maryland-based company gears up to produce even more advanced hardware at a Seattle-area manufacturing facility.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

million in new funding to advance its drug discovery program for hard-to-treat diseases. Mercenne was most recently at Sumitomo Pharma America and Recursion Pharmaceuticals. — Matt Medlin has taken a role as a lecturer in the University of Washington’s Master of Science Entrepreneurship program.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

It is also finalizing plans for a phase 2 influenza trial of a separate treatment, after pivoting away from an earlier program for hepatitis C virus. Cocrystal develops “broad spectrum” compounds active against multiple viruses by targeting their replication machinery. Cocrystal Pharma co-CEOs Sam Lee (left) and James Martin.

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JULY 5, 2022

As part of a program designed to accelerate its use of enterprise data and analytics , pharmaceutical titan GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) designed a set of analytics tools focused on inventory reduction opportunities across the company’s supply chain. GSK finds inventory reduction opportunities. Business analytics dashboard components.

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JUNE 22, 2023

While Silicon Valley still pays top dollar for IT pros, the war for talent has moved beyond the technology industry, with other verticals vying for talented IT workers who have the skills to enable digital transformation, process improvement, change management, and the development of apps and services.

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MARCH 12, 2022

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 Here’s a nice profile of a Portland biotech startup, Sparrow Pharmaceuticals , which is testing therapies to soften the effects of excess steroid levels, in phase 2 clinical trials.

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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. She follows former Microsoft leader Peggy Johnson, who became Magic Leap’s CEO in August.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

. — Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems. Aviation company Wheels Up announced Srikanth Satya as chief technology and development officer. as VP of business development for its marketplace. Srikanth Satya. Wheels Up Photo).

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MAY 17, 2022

That’s what happened to a global pharmaceutical company working on a COVID vaccine. “A A lot of pharmaceutical companies used AI to find solutions faster,” says Mario Schlener, global financial services risk leader at Ernst & Young. One company made some good progress in building algorithms, he says. GDPR fines.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

The impact of space technology, on other industries, is wide and vast, and the innovation ripple of research has spurred many high-profile products, including Teflon and CAT scans, as well as many more developments from NASA. Then, I will share information about the 2023 SAP Innovation Award program and how companies can get involved.

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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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JUNE 7, 2022

The role requires expert back-end programming and server configuration skills, as well as knowledge of containers and continuous integration and delivery deployment, Rao says. “An An AI designer works with developers to ensure they understand the needs of human users. AI designer. AI strategist.

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