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BioMed Realty lays out plan for newly acquired Seattle block
BioMed Realty paid nearly $127 million for a downtown Seattle block where they seek to develop 1.2 million square feet of life science and technology

Nonprofit Seattle vaccine maker AAHI receives $26M donation
Seattle-based biotech non-profit, Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI) announced a $26 million donation from the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation (CSSFF). The donation will be

Cell therapy biotech raises $120M to advance therapy to treat common cornea condition
Aurion Biotech, a spinoff of Seattle eye care company, CorneaGen, has received $120 million in funding to help advance cell therapy for corneal endothelial dystrophies,

Report: Kirkland software engineers are among best paid in the US
New research by Blind, a social network for employees in tech and other industries, shows that Washington state ranks top of the list for cities

Report: Washington is One of the Top 10 States to Work from Home
With 20 percent of the national workforce working remotely, a recent report by Wallethub reveals that Washington is the eighth-best state to work from home.

The neural dynamics of teamwork: New Allen Institute CEO on diversity and impact in life science
In a Q&A interview conducted by GeekWire reporter, Charlotte Schubert, Rui Costa, the Allen Institute’s new CEO, talks about his vision for his new role,

How happy are Seattle, and WA as a whole, compared to other cities and states?
Seattle has been named the seventh happiest city in the nation in a new report by WalletHub. The report analyzed indicators across 180 cities and

Seattle startup raises $9.7M for clinical trial to test inhaled CBD as anxiety treatment
Receptor Life Sciences, a Seattle-based startup, announced it has raised $9.7 million in a Series A-1 funding round to push its CBD-based therapeutic for acute

UW Medicine lands funding to launch tuberculosis research center
The University of Washington School of Medicine is receiving a grant for up to $5.3 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Univ. of Washington researchers find new way to design potential therapeutics
Researchers at The University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) are leading a study to employ computational design to generate potential drugs, aiming to

Seattle protein design company Arzeda raises $33M Series B round
A Seattle-based protein design company, Arzeda raised $33M in a Series B funding round led by Conti Ventures, alongside contributions from Lewis & Clark Agrifood,

Life sciences, biotech research draw big bucks to Washington
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded more than $1.4 billion in funding to Washington’s life sciences and biotech research industry in 2021. Around 94%
