Genetic Revolution Regional Hubs – As the biographer of Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson has studied and written extensively about the physics and technological revolutions. However, after finishing his most recent book, he is convinced that a far more significant revolution is in the works.
“The next few decades will be the era of biotech,” he predicted in…
Microsoft gives USD 5M to UW Medicine – The speed with which vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, were developed was a modern marvel. You might have gotten yours already, a little more than a year after the virus took over the world. But what if vaccines and treatments could be developed even more quickly in response to the next pandemic?
One of the goals of…
Engineer is using his sons rare disease – Sanath Kumar Ramesh and his wife Ramya experienced typical first-time-parent jitters before the birth of their son. Ramesh, an Amazon software engineering manager, was overjoyed to welcome his first child. He was prepared for the responsibilities and rewards of parenthood.
Raghav was born in August 2018, and Ramesh’s life began to…
Testing Amazon Pharmacy – Amazon’s foray into healthcare includes COVID-19 testing, the Halo health band and service, cloud services for healthcare and life sciences, and even primary care for its employees.
The sheer size of the healthcare market and the massive problems to be solved is a major motivator for the company.
“Amazon is a big company now, and they still…
This Is Amazons At-Home COVID-19 Test Kit – Amazon’s foray into healthcare includes COVID-19 testing, the Halo health band and service, cloud services for healthcare and life sciences, and even primary care for its employees.
The sheer size of the healthcare market and the massive problems to be solved is a major motivator for the company.
“Amazon is a big company…
How Life Sciences Emerged From The Doldrums In Seattle – Leslie Alexandre has seen a lot while surveying the life sciences landscape in Washington state. She is set to retire at the end of this year after serving as president and CEO of the industry group Life Science Washington for five years, during which time the state’s maturing biotech sector experienced strong…
improve cancer care in Africa – Kingsley Ndoh, a Seattle entrepreneur, is motivated by the memory of his aunt, who died too young of colon cancer.
Many things went wrong when she was sick in Nigeria more than ten years ago, according to Ndoh. The clinical guidelines at the time established screening age thresholds based primarily on data from white populations, which have a lower…
UW biotech spinout to develop gene therapy system – Myosana Therapeutics, a Seattle-based company developing gene therapy technology, has raised $5 million to fund the development of an early-stage candidate treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Mysona claims that its experimental platform for delivering genes to cells outperforms the standard method, which is limited to smaller…
Seattle-area longevity company emerges – Bradford Zakes recently assisted in the merger of his Seattle-area biotech company, Cerevast Medical, with two startups to form a new company. He is now preparing to take Longevity Biomedical public as president and CEO through a merger with a shell company.
Longevity, based in Bothell, Washington, is expected to gain at least $30 million from…
Privacy bill aims to protect health data – If lawmakers pass the My Health, My Data Act, consumers in Washington state will gain new privacy protections for their health data.
The act would prohibit websites and apps from collecting and selling consumer health data without user consent.
The proposed legislation also grants consumers the right to have their health data…
