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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spins out disease-fighting biotech startup Nohla Therapeutics

Nohla Therapeutics just became the latest biotech startup to come out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Like spinouts before it, Nohla is already… Read More

Fast-growing scientific wellness startup Arivale hires BlueKai co-founder as chief revenue officer

Arivale, the “scientific wellness” startup co-founded by genomics pioneer Lee Hood, has hired Grant Ries, the co-founder of big-data company BlueKai,… Read More

Former Zillow CFO Chad Cohen lands at Adaptive Biotechnologies

Chad Cohen, who left the CFO gig at Zillow last month after nine years at the online real estate company, has… Read More

A perception problem: Seattle’s biotech industry should not be a hidden secret

Seattle is well known for making airplanes, coffee and software. But when it comes to cutting-edge biotechnology and health services,… Read More

Washington’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund fading away after being hit by state budget woes

The Life Sciences Discovery Fund — an investment vehicle used to fund early-stage biotechnology and life science research in the… Read More

Fred Hutch president says they’ve got cancer ‘running scared,’ predicts cure in 10 years

There’s a tsunami on the horizon, and it has cancer “running scared.” Those were the words from Fred Hutchinson Cancer… Read More

Juno CEO Hans Bishop: The $1 billion Celgene deal could be the ‘most productive’ collaboration in biotech

Juno Therapeutics is no stranger to huge financing deals. The Seattle biotech company, which emerged on the scene just two… Read More

Juno stock skyrockets after Celgene invests $1 billion to change the way cancer is treated

Shares of Seattle-based biotech startup Juno Therapeutics spiked more than 60 percent in after-hours trading on Monday after the company announced… Read More

Bristol-Myers Squibb relocating 40 Seattle scientists to San Francisco five years after acquiring ZymoGenetics

Five years after coming to Seattle via its purchase of ZymoGenetics, drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb is moving 40 Seattle-based research and… Read More

Juno Therapeutics breaks ground on HQ, establishing a new hub for biotech in Seattle

The groundbreaking for the new headquarters and R&D center of Juno Therapeutics at the Alexandria Center brings increased promise to the… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Life Science Innovation Northwest, TechCrunch Seattle Meetup, and more

The intersection of major research outposts like Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, plus a thriving tech… Read More

Seattle Genetics inks $25M licensing deal with maker of unique ‘cancer cell killer’

Shares of Seattle Genetics stumbled on Tuesday after the Bothell-based company announced a partnership to license the Antibody-Coupled T-cell Receptor… Read More

Looking to spin off more startups, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center names new commercialization chief

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center helped spark a number of groundbreaking spin-off companies in recent years, from publicly-traded Juno… Read More

Shares of Juno Therapeutics jump after Seattle biotech buys X-BODY Inc.

Shares of Juno Therapeutics jumped more than six percent on Tuesday after the Seattle biotechnology company announced its acquisition of… Read More

Meet Healthy Ventures: This seed-stage venture firm is looking to uncover digital health startups

Enmi Kendall and Anya Schiess met more than 10 years ago while attending The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.… Read More

Seattle’s Adaptive Biotechnologies raises whopping $195 million venture round

In the largest venture capital round in Washington state so far this year, Adaptive Biotechnologies has scored $195 million in… 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

Tech Moves: Vern Fotheringham named CEO of satellite venture; Paul Shoemaker leaving SVP after 17 years; and more

—Telecommunications entrepreneur Vern Fotheringham has been named CEO of Leosat, an Arlington, Virginia-based company developing a constellation of low-earth orbit… Read More

Valeant buys bankrupt drug maker Dendreon for $495 million

Dendreon, the maker of the prostate cancer treatment Provenge, has been sold for $495 million to Valeant Pharmaceuticals International. The… Read More

Bankrupt cancer drug maker Dendreon selling to Valeant for $400 million

Dendreon, the once-promising Seattle biotechnology company that developed treatments for prostate cancer, will be sold to Quebec-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.… Read More

Fast-growing cancer research company Juno Therapeutics to open Seattle area manufacturing facility

Juno Therapeutics, the fast-growing Seattle biotechnology company, today announced that it plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Bothell… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies buys Sequenta to expedite cancer, infectious disease treatments

Adaptive Biotechnologies, a Seattle company that’s working on sequencing to profile T-cell and B-cell receptors, today announced that it is acquiring… Read More

Cerevast raises $10M for ‘ClotBuster’ ultrasonic headframe device, a new therapy for stroke patients

Cerevast Therapeutics, a 5-year-old Redmond company that’s developing a novel approach for treating stroke patients with ultrasound, has raised $10 million… 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

Drug maker Novo Nordisk confirms new obesity R&D center in Seattle

Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk announced plans today to open a new obesity research unit in Seattle, a move that… Read More

Cancer research startup VentiRx lands $50M

Seattle’s biotech industry has been on an up-and-down roller coaster ride over the past 12 months, with layoffs and R&D… Read More

Big news for biotech: Novo Nordisk considering Seattle for new obesity R&D center

Seattle has been struck with some tough setbacks in the biotech community in the past few months, including the recent… Read More

Shares of Alder BioPharmaceuticals sink after Bristol-Myers Squibb deal falls apart

Shares of Alder BioPharmaceuticals continue to fall after the company received notice from partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Company after the giant drug company… Read More

NanoString chief medical officer J. Wayne Cowens passes away at the age of 67

Dr. J. Wayne Cowens, the chief medical officer at Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, has died at the age of 67. “We… Read More

Sticking close to innovation roots, Arch Venture Partners raises oversubscribed $400M fund

Arch Venture Partners has operated longer than most venture capital firms by sticking close to its knitting.  And now the… Read More

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