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Seattle Children’s

Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers

Seattle Children’s is spinning out BrainChild Bio, a biotech startup tackling cancer in the central nervous system with an initial… Read More

Uncommon Thinkers: Elizabeth Hansen uses her job as an anesthesiologist to cut carbon emissions

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming… Read More

Tech Moves: Remitly exec to step down; Yoky Matsuoka named CEO of new Panasonic division

— Kim Vu, vice president of environmental social governance at Seattle digital remittance giant Remitly, will step down from her… Read More

Interview: Seattle Children’s new research leader Vittorio Gallo on AI, neuroscience, art and more

Italian-born neuroscientist Vittorio Gallo first got interested in research through his appreciation of art, which made him wonder how our… Read More

Tech Moves: Lumen taps former Microsoft exec as CEO; Seattle Children’s hires research officer

— Kate Johnson will become the new CEO of Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink. She was also appointed president and… Read More

Life sciences news roundup: Adaptive layoffs; Seattle Children’s biotech partnership; and more

As a bear market takes a bite out of biotech stock values that had soared during the pandemic, some companies… Read More

Zain Nadella, 1996-2022: Microsoft CEO’s son remembered for love of music, profound impact on his dad

Zain Nadella, the son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his wife, Anu Nadella, died Monday at the age of… Read More

SCCA and Fred Hutch

Cancer care and research in Pacific Northwest to be streamlined under proposed reorganization

Cancer care and research in the Pacific Northwest may undergo a shift next year with a new partnership structure among… Read More

Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son

On a beautiful August day in a Bellevue park, just as he was getting ready to cut the cake for… Read More

Geek of the Week: Elizabeth Lawlor brings her lab — and hope for a cancer cure — to Seattle Children’s

A native of Vancouver, B.C., Dr. Elizabeth Lawlor is thrilled to be back in the Pacific Northwest. And she’s equally… Read More

Seattle Children’s imaging expert uses CT scanner and 3D printing to replace vital equipment parts

Along with the health care workers, delivery drivers, grocery store employees and many others being celebrated for their efforts on… Read More

Seattle Children’s opens a ‘cure factory’ to explore treatments for childhood cancer and other diseases

Maryn Sage remembers the words she heard on the day she learned that her 16-year-old son, Jedd Feliciano, was cancer-free.… Read More

Virtual reality is helping babies breathe thanks to a project from Seattle Children’s and Oxford

As a neonatologist at Seattle Children’s, Dr. Rachel Umoren knows that every second counts when a baby is born and… Read More

Microsoft and Seattle Children’s study shows strong link between smoking and unexpected death in infants

Microsoft data scientists and researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital have teamed up to give a high-resolution picture of the link… Read More

Got the flu? Seattle wants to swab your nose for a massive health data project

Calling all feverish, coughing, achy Seattleites: Your germs could help prevent the next big pandemic. At least, that’s the hope… Read More

TLDR: Facebook discovers political influence campaign, Seattle clinic for families affected by gentrification, Apple beats revenue expectations

Today’s featured stories Facebook discovers coordinated political influence campaign ahead of midterm elections Seattle Children’s opens new community clinic to… Read More

Seattle Children’s aims to cure terminal brain cancer using immunotherapy with new BrainChild initiative

When Avery Berg was diagnosed with aggressive, late-stage brain cancer at just 10 years old, she fought hard to stay… Read More

Seattle Children’s launches CureWorks, a project aimed at revolutionizing cancer treatment for kids

New cancer immunotherapies could revolutionize how we treat the disease, but for many children, those treatments are far out of… Read More

Ted Laetsch

Cancer researchers report positive results for larotrectinib, a ‘tumor-agnostic’ drug

Two clinical studies have provided evidence suggesting that an experimental precision-medicine drug called larotrectinib can fight soft-tissue tumors regardless of… Read More

Study finds differences between adult and childhood leukemia, calls for developing age-specific cancer treatments

A study conducted by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with contributions from researchers across North America, has found stark differences… Read More

Seattle Children’s launches $1 billion campaign with plans to build new immunotherapy research center

Seattle Children’s, a hospital and research institute focused on curing childhood diseases, is kickstarting the biggest campaign in its 110-year… Read More

iPhone app could replace expensive lung monitoring equipment

Is there anything a smartphone app can’t do? Researchers at the University of Washington, UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s hospital… Read More

Seattle Children’s lands $2.3M Gates Foundation grant for innovative respiratory device

Seattle Children’s Research Institute has secured a $2.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finish developing… Read More

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