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Bristol Myers Squibb Pledges $300 Million To Address Racial Inequality In Healthcare
Bristol Myers Squibb announced that it will commit $300 million over the next five years to tackle racial health disparities and accelerate its diversity and

Life Science Industry in Washington Continuing to Grow and Hire Amid COVID-19
Life Science Washington announced the launch of its new campaign, “Find Your Best Life in Washington,” to encourage top talent nationwide to learn more about

Chinook Therapeutics brings in $106M ahead of reverse merger
Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C. based company with offices in Seattle, raised $106 million in advance of an upcoming reverse merger with Berkeley, California-based Aduro

Meet the 21 biotech startups that top VCs say are poised to take off in the next 12 months
Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology and Silverback Therapeutics are among the 21 biotech startups that 12 top biotech venture capital investors are eyeing for investment opportunities in

How Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft are working to ‘decode’ our immune response to COVID-19
Microsoft and its Seattle-based neighbor Adaptive Biotechnologies have been in partnership since 2018 on immuno-sequencing advancements. Now, they’re pivoting their work to collaborate on COVID-19

Improving care for CLL patients
Adaptive Biotechnologies received FDA clearance for the clonoSEQ® Assay, used to assess the minimal residual disease in a chronic lymphocytic leukemia patient’s blood. Previously, the

New biotech startup GentiBio lands $20M, inks licensing deals with Seattle Children’s and BRI
Boston-based biotech startup GentiBio has secured licensing deals with Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason. The technology from both Seattle-based

Adaptive Biotechnologies pushes ahead with new Seattle HQ, showing strength of life sciences industry
Adaptive Biotechnologies is continuing with its plans to move into a 100,000-square-foot headquarters. The new facility, slated to open next year, will allow Adaptive to

Lyell Immunopharma Expansion is Underway in Bothell
Cellular therapy company Lyell Immunopharma is investing $50 million in a new 70,000 square foot manufacturing facility located in Bothell, Washington. This investment will support

CorneaGen creates transplant surgery fund, internship for Black community
CorneaGen, a Seattle-based provider of corneal transplant tissue, committed to donating $100,000 to help fund corneal transplant surgeries for underprivileged people of color in need

UW coronavirus vaccine shows strong immune response in monkeys, mice
The University of Washington and Seattle-based HDT Bio Corp. announced the development of a promising COVID-19 vaccine candidate that uses a cutting-edge approach. Based on

Gates Foundation awards $800K grant to A-Alpha Bio for COVID-19 treatment research
Seattle-based biotech research startup A-Alpha Bio has received an $800,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will support drug research for treating
