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Biotech

NanoString Technologies misses estimates as losses deepen

NanoString Technologies, a Seattle-based biotech company focused on developing cancer treatments, faced deepening losses this quarter as the company missed… Read More

Funding for Life Sciences Discovery Fund at risk, again, despite program’s success

Every April, there was to be a show of symmetry in Washington state. This month, Big Tobacco made its annual… Read More

Cerevast tops off round with $1.4M more to end at $11.4M raised

Medical device company Cerevast Therapeutics has topped off a Series C funding round with an additional $1.4 million. Cerevast, based… Read More

Veteran biotech journalist Luke Timmerman launches subscription news site

Luke Timmerman, a respected biotechnology journalist known for his past work at The Seattle Times and Xconomy, today launched a new subscription-based biotech news… Read More

Redmond’s Vesiflo secures $650,000 for catheter alternative

Medical device maker Vesiflo has secured $650,000 in funding ahead of its commercial launch later this year. The Redmond-based company,… Read More

NanoString expands office and lab space

NanoString, a 12-year-old Seattle company whose tools help genetic researchers better analyze genes and molecules, is expanding its footprint in… Read More

Juno Therapeutics files for IPO, a year after founding, seeking $150M for cancer breakthroughs

Juno Therapeutics, a heavily funded biotech company with a novel approach to fighting cancer, filed plans for an initial public… Read More

Seattle biotech Dendreon files for bankruptcy, considers sale

Dendreon, a once-promising Seattle biotech company developing treatments for prostate cancer, today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It marks… Read More

Beyond Ebola: Infectious disease has gone global, health experts warn

The arrival of Ebola in the U.S. should serve as a high-profile reminder of how quickly — and inevitably — infectious disease… Read More

Immusoft raises cash from Tim Draper, others to program human cells that fight diseases

Applying computer science principles to human anatomy may end up producing a medical breakthrough if one Seattle startup has its way.… Read More

Betting on biotech: Big new lab building set to break ground in Seattle, despite Amgen’s exit

Biotech giant Amgen’s decision to close down its waterfront campus in Seattle isn’t stopping one real estate company from forging… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amgen and the state of Seattle biotech, with guest Luke Timmerman

Amgen dealt a blow to Seattle’s biotech industry last week with the announcement that it will be closing its large research-and-development campus… Read More

Cancer research company Immune Design raises $60M in IPO

Trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker IMDZ, Seattle biotech company Immune Design today priced its initial public offering at… Read More

Cardiac Insight lands $7M Series B led by Welch Allyn

Cardiac Insight has raised a $7 million Series B round, led by medical device manufacturer Welch Allyn, according to a… Read More

Seattle biotech firm Kineta raises $1.6 million to boost its battle against disease

Kineta, a Seattle-based biotech startup, has raised an investment round worth almost $1.6 million from existing investors in the company.… Read More

Stratos Genomics lands investment, secures partnership with biotech giant Roche

Seattle biotech company Stratos Genomics today announced a new partnership with Roche, a Switzerland-based biotech giant. Roche has made a strategic investment… Read More

Stratos Genomics raises $10M for DNA sequencing technology

Stratos Genomics, a Seattle-based biotech company, has raised $10 million of a $16.3 million series B round. CEO Allan Stephan confirmed… Read More

Tacoma biotech Revalesio raising $40M to develop cures for inflammatory diseases

Tacoma may not be the first place you think of when biotechnology comes to mind, but one company from the… Read More

Cardiac Dimensions raises $20M to sell heart-valve repair technology

AlCardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland-based company building heart-valve repair technology, today announced a $20 million round of financing led by M. H.… Read More

UW spin-out Oricula Therapeutics raises cash to sell medicine that prevents hearing loss

Oricula Therapeutics, a startup spun out of the University of Washington, has raised $122,000 to commercialize medicine that can help… Read More

More funding for cancer research in Seattle: Adaptive Biotechnologies raises $105M

Researchers from Seattle who are finding ways to eliminate cancer are bringing in some serious funding today. On the same… Read More

Alder BioPharma files for $115M IPO, looks to use cash for migraine and arthritis treatments

Seattle has seen a strong string of IPOs in the past few years — from Zillow to Tableau to Zulily.… Read More

Seattle biotech company Acucela preps for $125M IPO on Tokyo Exchange

Seattle biotechnology company Acucela is prepping for a $125 million IPO on the Tokyo Exchange. An SEC filing published today reveals… Read More

Calling all scientists: Seattle’s first biotech hackerspace opens Friday

DIYbio in Seattle might just be back from the dead. Two years ago, a group of science enthusiasts tried to… Read More

Tech Moves: Prevencio lands biotech vets; Lively hires music vets; DomainTools nabs Roberts

—Prevencio, an early-stage biotech company working on cardiac biomarker tests, has named H. Perry Fell as chairman and Rhonda Rhyne… Read More

Bruce Montgomery biotech startup Cardeas Pharma raises $34 million

It has been a good week for the Seattle life sciences community. On Monday, Seattle genomics tool maker NanoString Technologies… Read More

This 16-year-old is spearheading Seattle’s first biotech hackerspace

Katriona Guthrie-Honea had a great idea. Last year, as a freshman at Ingraham High School in Seattle, she taught herself enough… Read More

Former oil trader, Yankees part-owner invests in Kineta

Seattle-based biotech upstart Kineta announced a new investment partnership with RLB Holdings, a Connecticut-based investment firm that partially owns the… Read More

Report: Cardeas Pharma raises $5M

Cardeas Pharma, a biotechnology company led by Seattle biotech entrepreneur Bruce Montgomery, has reeled in $5 million in venture financing… Read More

Gates keeps the bar high in push for malaria eradication

Addressing the Malaria Forum in downtown Seattle this morning, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was back in the… Read More

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