Kate Johnson. (Lumen Applied sciences Photograph) — Kate Johnson will turn out to be the brand new CEO of Lumen Applied sciences, previously referred to as CenturyLink. She was additionally appointed president and can be part of the board of administrators of the 35,000-employee firm, beginning November 7. Johnson beforehand served 4 years as president of…
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Tom Daniel, incoming Washington Research Foundation CEO (WRF Photo) Washington Research Foundation has appointed a new CEO: Tom Daniel, former chairman of the University of Washington’s Department of Biology. Daniel will take the helm of WRF on Oct. 1 from interim CEO Susan Coliton, who took over after the retirement of longtime CEO Ron Howell…
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Protein rings hallucinated by artificial intelligence-powered software from the Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Image) The Institute for Protein Design helped usher in an era for scientists to predict the structure of a protein using artificial intelligence tools, an accomplishment that helped it win the “Breakthrough of the Year” award from Science magazine last year…
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Know Labs’ experimental KnowU device (left) and UBand wristband. (Know Labs Images) Know Labs, a Seattle company aiming to measure glucose levels through the skin using radio waves, added more cash to its balance sheet as it listed Friday on the NYSE American Exchange. The company, originally founded in 1998, was already a public entity,…
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Zócalo Health founders Erik Cardenas and Mariza Hardin. (Zócalo Photo) A new virtual healthcare startup, Zócalo Health, has raised $5 million to fuel plans to provide primary care focused on the Latino population. Seattle-based Zócalo was co-founded last year by CEO Erik Cardenas and Mariza Hardin, head of strategy and operations, who were early hires at…
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PillPack founders TJ Parker, left, and Elliot Cohen. (Photos via LinkedIn) PillPack co-founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen will leave Amazon, four years after the tech giant acquired the online pharmacy in 2018 as an early step in its broader push into healthcare. Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, informed employees in…
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Image from the Allen Human Brain Atlas. Different colors represent distinct sets of active and inactive genes. (Allen Institute Photo) Seattle’s Allen Institute will spearhead a project to create an atlas of the cells in the human brain as part of $173 million in new funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health awarded to…
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The Nationwide Most cancers Institute has awarded Seattle’s Institute for Techniques Biology $13 million to steer a collaborative most cancers middle learning two key forms of most cancers therapies: focused therapies and immunotherapies. Utilizing mouse fashions of most cancers and human tissue, researchers will administer the 2 forms of therapies in succession and evaluate the…
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Seagen has inked a deal to develop, manufacture and commercialize an experimental immuno-oncology agent from Lava Therapeutics, a biotech firm based mostly in Utrecht, Netherlands. Seagen pays Lava $50 million upfront to completely license Lava-1223, a “bispecific T cell engager” designed to direct sure T cells to tumors through the goal EGFR on most cancers…
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Seattle-area well being knowledge startup Truveta introduced a collaboration Tuesday with Boston Scientific, a number one medical gadget firm. The partnership will allow Boston Scientific researchers to entry Truveta’s de-identified knowledge from greater than 65 million U.S. sufferers, with the intention of gathering insights into gadgets and illness states. To indicate the worth of its…