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Phase Genomics

Tech Moves: Meta leader for Pacific NW steps down; Phase Genomics adds to C-suite

Paresh Rajwat this summer stepped down from his role as the Pacific Northwest head of office for Meta, which has… Read More

Phase Genomics gets $1.5M grant from Gates Foundation to fight cow burp methane

Seattle biotech startup Phase Genomics is receiving $1.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund research into… Read More

Washington state backs AI-driven cancer diagnostics and other startup projects

Seattle startup Phase Genomics will develop its platform to detect chromosomal aberrations in cancer with $2.5 million in new funding.… Read More

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AI, startups, and Star Wars: Conversations from the 2023 GeekWire Awards

The theme at this week’s GeekWire Awards was Star Wars, but we didn’t need to go to a galaxy far,… Read More

Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more

— Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Garudayagari has more than 20 years of… Read More

GeekWire Awards: How this Ukrainian-born CEO created a biotech startup ‘where curious scientists thrive’

Editor’s note: This is one of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahead of the 2023 GeekWire… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Meet the 5 finalists for Startup CEO of the Year

The finalists in this year’s GeekWire Awards category for Startup CEO of the Year are taking on a range of… Read More

Biotech industry leaders share cautious optimism for 2023 amid downturn and layoffs

Sujal Patel has been here before. He weathered the 2009 recession as CEO of Isilon Systems, coming out the other… Read More

Gates Foundation funds biotech company cataloging the viruses that infect bacteria

A Seattle DNA analysis startup is taking on a project with global ambitions with $5.5 million in new funds from… Read More

Phase Genomics lands $3.9M in grants to improve testing for chromosomal abnormalities

Seattle biotech company Phase Genomics announced Wednesday that it received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants totaling $3.9 million.… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma… Read More

‘Start innovating like crazy’: Fast-moving genomics startup turns to R&D to navigate the pandemic

On the day in early March when I interviewed Phase Genomics CEO Ivan Liachko, we knew just enough about the… Read More

TLDR: Self-flying planes, Cat celeb Lil Bub lends poop to biotech startup, Facebook tool that tracks your time in the app

Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends… Read More

Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends poop to Seattle startup, leading to discovery of new kinds of bacteria

Grab your litter scoopers, folks — there might just be valuable scientific data in your cat’s poop. That was certainly the… Read More

Phase Genomics wins $1.5M grant to peer inside microorganisms’ DNA

University of Washington spin-out Phase Genomics is searching for the genetic code inside the billions of microorganisms that surround us… Read More

One way to grow Seattle’s biotech economy: Start small

Despite some knock-out successes and world-class research, Seattle’s biotechnology industry has remained relatively small compared to other hubs around the… Read More

With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria

Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists… Read More

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