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Seattle Genetics

Merck’s multi-billion dollar bet on Seattle Genetics sparks hope for breast cancer treatments

Shares of Seattle Genetics are soaring more than 10% this morning after the Bothell, Wash.-based biotechnology company struck a deal… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; Seattle startup Ally.io adds execs; and more

— Brad Porter, the longtime Amazon robotics leader, has surfaced as the first chief technology officer of Scale AI, a… Read More

Seattle Genetics gets FDA approval for breast cancer treatment drug Tukysa

Seattle Genetics today announced FDA approval for its drug Tukysa, also known as tucatinib, which fights aggressive breast cancers. Tucatinib… Read More

These tech stocks were the biggest winners and losers in the Seattle area for 2019

Microsoft and Amazon are the centerpieces of Seattle’s booming tech scene, and 2019 was a big year for both of… Read More

Seattle Genetics stock jumps 17% on breast cancer drug trial success

Shares of cancer drug maker Seattle Genetics soared more than 17 percent Monday morning following positive results for a new… Read More

Canadian biotech company Chinook Therapeutics raises $65M for rare kidney disease therapies

Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company creating targeted therapies for kidney diseases, raised $65 million in a Series A… Read More

Cancer drugmaker Seattle Genetics raises $575 million in stock offering

Seattle Genetics sold more than 8 million shares in a stock offering that brought in $575 million for the company… Read More

Seattle Genetics shares slump after losses grow

Seattle Genetics on Thursday reported higher-than-expected losses for the fourth quarter, sending shares down 8 percent in after-hours trading. Quarterly… Read More

Seattle Genetics drug rides FDA fast-track to the front lines in fight against rare form of cancer

Seattle Genetics’ star cancer drug Adcetris has won Food and Drug Administration approval for treatment of a fast-growing type of… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet Qi Lu steps down at Baidu; Seattle Genetics adds new chief medical officer; and more

In a management reshuffle at Chinese search engine giant Baidu, COO and Microsoft veteran Qi Lu is stepping down from… Read More

Seattle Genetics finds mixed success in first earnings after Cascadian Therapeutics acquisition

Biotech company Seattle Genetics, which develops cancer treatments, reported mixed earnings results on Thursday, its first earnings report since it closed… Read More

Tech Moves: PicMonkey co-founder Lisa Conquergood joins Ripl; Starbucks hires tech vet as general counsel; and more

Lisa Conquergood has taken quite a journey in the startup world. She was the chief marketing officer of photo-editing service… Read More

Cell therapies are giving Seattle an edge in biotech, driving three acquisitions in under a month

On a chilly Monday morning in January, Seattle awoke to the news that one of its most promising companies, Juno… Read More

Seattle Genetics beats earnings expectations as revenue from cancer drug Adcetris grows

Seattle Genetics, a Seattle-based biotechnology company that makes the cancer therapy Adcetris, beat Wall Street expectations in its 2017 earnings… Read More

Seattle Genetics to acquire Cascadian Therapeutics for $614M to further bolster its cancer fight

Seattle Genetics, a biotechnology company that develops antibody-based cancer treatments, announced Wednesday that it will acquire Cascadian Therapeutics and the… Read More

Seattle Genetics COO taking the reins at stealthy biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics

Eric Dobmeier, the longtime COO at public biotech company Seattle Genetics, is stepping down from his role to become CEO… Read More

Seattle Genetics beats earnings expectations as lead drug Adcetris finds market success

Seattle Genetics, the maker of cancer drug Adcetris, beat analyst expectations by a noticeable margin in its third-quarter earnings, reported… Read More

Seattle Genetics discontinues trials of cancer drug, sees stock losses

Seattle Genetics, a Bothell, Wash., based biotechnology company developing novel treatments for cancer, announced Monday that it has discontinued the… Read More

Seattle Genetics reports $109M in quarterly revenue, narrowly beating expectations

Seattle-based biotech company Seattle Genetics announced a revenue of $109 million for the first quarter of 2017 Thursday, narrowly beating… Read More

Seattle Genetics cancer drug clinical trials will go forward after FDA lifts hold

In December of last year, the FDA ordered three early clinical trials of one of Seattle Genetics’ cancer drugs put… Read More

Shares of Seattle Genetics tumble after FDA places clinical hold on leukemia drug following patient deaths

  Shares of Seattle Genetics fell nearly 15 percent on Tuesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed clinical holds… Read More

Seattle Genetics announces successful clinical trial of lymphoma treatment

Bothell-based Seattle Genetics and Tokyo-based Takeda Oncology announced the success of their phase 3 clinical trial of Adcetris today, an immunotherapy drug that… Read More

Despite record sales of cancer drug, Seattle Genetics shares fall 7 percent

Despite posting record sales of its cancer drug and beating analyst expectations for its fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, shares… 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

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