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APRIL 7, 2021

The company launched its COVID program in October, supported in part by $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Simpson was formerly the CEO of PvP Biologics, another IPD spinout, which he oversaw from the company’s launch through its sale to the pharmaceutical company Takeda.

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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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MARCH 7, 2022

The funding for the “Innovation Cluster Accelerator” program is provided through $15 million from the U.S. Washington state’s Department of Commerce has awarded four $500,000 grants to public-private organizations building new “innovation” clusters in the state.

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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 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). Presage is a biotech device company that has built a platform for testing new cancer drugs used to treat tumors. The company has raised a total of $35 million in equity, and this its first venture round.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Senate Bill 5144 would require producers of batteries and battery-containing products to fund a state-approved stewardship program for collecting and recycling batteries. ” There is already a voluntary rechargeable battery recycling program in Washington. have recycling programs funded by battery producers.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Adrian Adams stepped down as CEO, president and chairman at Impel Pharmaceuticals , where he led the Seattle biotech company since 2020. billion through the federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program. Leonard Paolillo , chief commercial officer, is now interim president and CEO. Retired Air Force Col.

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JUNE 17, 2021

The Ukrainian Cyberpolice Department recently detained six hackers for the use of the ransomware program known as "Clop.". The hackers would send emails with malicious files to employees and, once opened, they completely infected the computer with a remote managed program called "Flawed Ammyy RAT".

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Recent initiatives include: State and local agencies created a program called NextCycle Washington , which runs an accelerator to support sustainable, circular economy businesses. Limits and bans on plastic items including straws, grocery bags and utensils.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A success was that we had successfully achieved the objectives of the program.” So far, Elizabeth Holmes’ defense has been at pains to show us that Theranos had a real device and worked with real pharmaceutical companies. A success was that we had successfully achieved the objectives of the program.”.

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JULY 7, 2015

Seven win contracts to support Navy unmanned maritime systems program Washington Technology (Today) - Seven companies have won contracts to support a Navy unmanned maritime systems program. Why Most Public Cloud Solutions Are Unsafe? Can 'technology engines' power innovation at DHS?

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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. It includes a career certificate.

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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. Absci announced a deal with AstraZeneca this week worth up to $247 million.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The FDA cleared aducanumab (also known as Aduhelm) on an accelerated, conditional approval program, and is requiring the company to conduct a new clinical trial to test effectiveness while it markets the drug. More recently, Athira and other drug companies have turned to other approaches and fresh targets.

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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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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 Photo). Seattle Genetics employs about 1,800, and boasts a market value of $29 billion.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. “We’re currently not going into explicit detail on the program, but we’re in a fortunate position.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

He co-founded Aquinox Pharmaceuticals. We have great confidence in Notch’s high-caliber management team and the rigorous science underlying its research programs,” said Dr. David Chang, president and CEO of Allogene and member of the Notch board of directors. David Main is Notch president and CEO.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

“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. Before COVID-19, AltPrep was housed at the UW’s CoMotion Labs incubator space in Fluke Hall.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Through connections facilitated by the UW, Takeda Pharmaceuticals caught wind of PvP Biologics. “We With funding from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Pultz became the chief science officer and oversaw the early clinical trials of KumaMax. “The goal was to bring this celiac technology through early stage clinical work,” Pultz said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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 tools.

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JULY 18, 2023

Then in 2006 Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, CUDA, that could be programmed directly in C to accelerate mathematical processing, simplifying its use in parallel computing. It’s also in the service business, operating its own cloud infrastructure for pharmaceutical firms, manufacturing, and others.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Meininger was previously an executive at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson and Merck, and was a clinical assistant professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Members include: Sonoma co-founder Alexander Rudensky , chair of the immunology program at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

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. It had eight full-time employees this March.

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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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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. But scientists have been using AI — of a sort — for decades.

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2023

How to become a data architect Data architect is an evolving role and there is no industry-standard certification or training program for data architects. According to Dataversity , good data architects have a solid understanding of the cloud, databases, and the applications and programs used by those databases.

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JULY 19, 2021

The company’s founders include Andrew Levin, managing director at RA Capital Management and chairman at Eliem, and Valerie Morisset , chief scientific officer who was previously an exec at Convergence Pharmaceuticals. Elieum’s ETX-810 program builds on previous clinical studies, by other groups, of a compound called PEA.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Strengthen application programming interfaces. “In doing so, you’re competing against academia, you’re competing against the many aspects of the private sector, biotech industry, the pharmaceutical industry.” Develop guidelines for management and stewardship of genomic data.

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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.

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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. Owen is the director of neglected tropical diseases at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Next week I will be participating in the inaugural session of What’s Next in IT Debate Series , a new program of authentic debates and conversations on key technology topics. IBM Debate Series - What’s Next in IT?

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