Health/Life Sciences – Page 7 of 54

Seattle startup Joylux, which sell devices for menopausal women, raises more cash

Joylux, a Seattle-based startup that markets products to support the health of menopausal women, raised $5.5 million. The new cash… Read More

Tech Moves: Allen Institute hires COO; DexCare adds CTO; and more

— The Allen Institute appointed Chris Beaudoin as its new chief operations officer. Beaudoin was previously chief operating officer at… Read More

Startup partners with AI2 to help people access information in research studies

A new startup, Consensus, is partnering with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) to help make the information in… Read More

Health informatics startup Truveta unveils search engine to probe data from 70M patients

More than two years after its founding, health data startup Truveta released a platform Tuesday that provides access to information… Read More

Seattle startup developing therapies based on human milk to go public via SPAC merger

Seattle startup Intrinsic Medicine plans to go public through a merger with a shell company, Phoenix Biotech Acquisition Corp. The… Read More

Virtual care startup aiming to improve rural health via headsets raises cash

Hippo Technologies, a Vancouver, Wash.-area startup developing tech to connect patients in rural areas with specialists, raised seed funding from… Read More

Healthcare startup Gabbi lands $4.4M to help women assess breast cancer risk and take action

Gabbi, a Portland, Ore.-based startup building a tool to help women assess their risk for breast cancer, raised $4.4 million.… Read More

Seattle-area health data analytics company Advata lays off employees

Seattle-area health data analytics provider Advata, recently formed from the merger of six companies, is the latest tech company in… Read More

Exclusive: Google quietly acquired a Seattle digital health startup that built an app to monitor breathing

Google’s got a thing for Seattle health tech startups. The tech giant acquired Sound Life Sciences, a small University of… Read More

Combating burnout: Fred Hutch psychologist on how employers can support workers

The phrase “burnout” has taken on new meaning during the pandemic. Forty percent of people in 2020 said the pandemic… Read More

Life sciences entrepreneurs offer advice on launching and building startups

The University of Washington recently hosted a panel of five entrepreneurs to discuss what it takes to launch a life… Read More

Zymeworks and Jazz Pharmaceuticals ink $50M deal with potential for more

Zymeworks signed a deal with Jazz Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize Zymeworks’ lead drug candidate, zanidatamab, which targets the cancer… Read More

Naveen Jain’s microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome is raising more cash

Seattle-area microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome Life Sciences is raising more cash, according to a new regulatory filing. The filing… Read More

Providence spinout DexCare buys Womp, an e-commerce company that started as a snow report

DexCare, a spinout of Providence’s digital innovation group, has acquired commerce platform Womp Inc., a 12-year old Bellingham, Wash.-based startup.… Read More

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center receives ‘transformative’ $710.5M gift from the Bezos family

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Wednesday announced an enormous philanthropic gift of $710.5 million from Jackie and Mike Bezos, the… Read More

TwinStrand CEO and co-founder steps down from Seattle biotech startup amid reported layoffs

TwinStrand Biosciences’ co-founder Jesse Salk has stepped down from the CEO role, according to a statement issued by the Seattle… Read More

How Amazon’s tech and logistics prowess may disrupt healthcare — and spark concern

As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could… Read More

Promising data from large Alzheimer’s study bodes well for this Seattle startup

Alzheimer’s disease researchers were buoyed by positive data released Tuesday from a large clinical trial of an experimental therapy being… Read More

Startup developing a hand-held ultrasound tool for the bedside lands $57M

EchoNous, which markets a compact, AI-powered ultrasound tool, has raised $57 million. The funding was noted in a recent regulatory… Read More

Amazon’s new Halo Rise bedside device tracks sleep with radar sensor, low-power radio signals

Amazon unveiled a new bedside sleep-tracking device, Halo Rise, expanding its lineup of consumer health devices beyond wristbands for the… Read More

Mental health startup focused on seniors launches with $32M, backing from Arch Venture Partners

The news: Rippl, a Seattle startup focused on the mental health of seniors, launched Wednesday with $32 million in seed… Read More

Madrona Venture Labs spinout aims to take the pain out of insurance claims

Outbound AI has a prescription for one of the biggest headaches of the medical system: interacting with insurance companies and… Read More

Health data company Truveta inks partnership with Boston Scientific, releases COVID-19 data

Seattle-area health data startup Truveta announced a collaboration Tuesday with Boston Scientific, a leading medical device company. The partnership will… Read More

Seagen inks deal with Dutch biotech to develop and commercialize drug candidate

Seagen has inked a deal to develop, manufacture and commercialize an experimental immuno-oncology agent from Lava Therapeutics, a biotech company… Read More

Institute for Systems Biology awarded $13M to study administering cancer drugs in succession

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology $13 million to lead a collaborative cancer center studying… Read More

Allen Institute aims to map whole human brain as part of $173M NIH project

Seattle’s Allen Institute will spearhead a project to create an atlas of the cells in the human brain as part… Read More

Internal memo: PillPack founders will leave Amazon at the end of the month

PillPack co-founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen will leave Amazon, four years after the tech giant acquired the online pharmacy… Read More

Amazon Care vets raise $5M for virtual health startup focused on Latino patients

A new virtual healthcare startup, Zócalo Health, has raised $5 million to fuel plans to provide primary care focused on the… Read More

Seattle company developing non-invasive glucose monitor raises more cash in new public offering

Know Labs, a Seattle company aiming to measure glucose levels through the skin using radio waves, added more cash to… Read More

Institute for Protein Design researchers show how AI can generate new protein shapes

The Institute for Protein Design helped usher in an era for scientists to predict the structure of a protein using… Read More