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Tech Moves: Zillow Group names new COO as longtime execs depart

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Founded in 2018, Vouched helps companies verify the identity of customers and users by examining driver’s licenses and other forms of identification. The new arrangement created a single institution that combined research and patient care and also serves as University of Washington Medicine’s cancer program. Bothell, Wash.-based

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Archon Biosciences emerges from stealth with $20M to create tiny ‘Antibody Cages’

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They licensed the AbC technology from UW and incorporated Archon Biosciences in 2023. 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. ” .

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Univ. of Wash.-spinout Icosavax raises $100M to fund vaccine development technology

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Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. The company launched its COVID program in October, supported in part by $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Icosavax Photo).

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

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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. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0 Amazon Comprehend.

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Alpine raises $91M to fuel the Seattle biotech’s clinical trials for lupus and cancer

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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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Seattle biotech startup AltPep raises $23.1M to tackle Alzheimer’s and related diseases

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The UW has licensed the exclusive rights of this intellectual property to the startup. This funding will allow us to build upon our promising preliminary data demonstrating detection of Alzheimer’s disease at its earliest stages and further our preclinical therapeutic program,” Daggett said in a statement.

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Impel NeuroPharma, fresh off IPO, gets FDA approval for nasal spray that treats migraines

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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. The second program is for Parkinson’s disease. Both programs leverage existing drugs but deliver them through Impel’s POD system for rapid action.