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Vote for your favorite Health Innovation of the Year a new category at the GeekWire Awards

Realtime fever tracking: How a Seattle startup quickly altered its roadmap to help with COVID19

Health tech startup Medcurity adds 200K in funding with plans to hire and expand training

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman sets his sights on Mount Kilimanjaro and 1M for cancer research

Cell therapy startup Immusoft lands deal with Takeda worth potentially more than 900M

Startup Spotlight: YouScript warns doctors of metabolic traffic jams caused by prescription drugs

Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech cofounders join life sciences SPAC new edtech execs and more

Seattle Childrens spinout MDMetrix raises seed funding for AB testing system for doctors

The next Xray Seattle startup Proprio raises 23M to build hightech surgical navigation system

Vancouver Wash biotech company Absci files to go public

Amazon leader and Army vet launches Seattle wellness startup to support new moms

Lawsuit: Investors bet big on Washington firms potential COVID19 treatment as CEO cashed out

Researchers use gene editing to make cells immune to HIV and other infections in Fred Hutch study

Drug giant Merck pays 300M to acquire Seattle biotech company Immune Design

Seattle startup uses scorpion venomderived protein to make brain tumors light up like a Christmas tree

Healthcare data startup Truveta showcases new platform and has now raised close to 200M

AAlpha Bio wins 620000 grant to work on molecular glue for treating disease

New presidential order will push for net neutrality limit large mergers restrict noncompete clauses

Phase Genomics wins 15M grant to peer inside microorganisms DNA

Volunteers launch database for COVID19 test centers across US and run it like a tech startup

How coronavirus testing and contact tracing work together to quell COVID19

Industry slowdown hits Adaptive Biotechs bottom line as COVID immune initiatives show progress

Seattle tech veterans rush to build an app to trace COVID19 exposure only to run into Apple rejection

Athira Pharma wins 15M grant from National Institute on Aging for trial of Alzheimers drug

Inspired by sons health issues Seattle entrepreneur launches athome earnosethroat monitor

Amazon JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to form their own healthcare tech company

Amazon unveils new service to mine and decode medical records using artificial intelligence

Seattle and Los Angeles lead STEM job growth in the US

AAlpha Bio raises 28M for genetically engineered drug discovery platform

Health tech company Accolade goes public at 12B valuation in Seattles first IPO of 2020

Sujal Patelled Nautilus Biotechnology goes public as it tackles ambitious plan to analyze proteins

Eliem is latest Seattlearea biotech to go public raises 80M to help fuel treatments for nervous system disorders

AdaptX raises 6M changes name from MDMetrix expands quest for healthcare data insights

Immunotherapy startup Umoja lands 210M less than a year after raising 53M

Seattle medical device firm EndoGastric Solutions closes 45M round for acid reflux treatment

Seattle biotech startup OncoSenX raises 3M to develop tumorkilling therapeutics

Startup Spotlight: GrailAI hopes to use AI to detect cancers most subtle red flags

Vimly Benefit Solutions raises 67M to help healthcare companies manage employee benefits

Microsoft and UPMC unveil virtual AI assistant that listens in and takes notes on doctors visits

Seattlebased Shape Therapeutics raises 112M to develop RNAediting and gene therapies

Lawsuit: Electronics giant Philips accuses Seattlearea company of hacking its medical devices

Federal agencies are setting aside billions for coronavirus research: Heres a list

University of Washington spinout raises 12M for nextgeneration RNA sequencing technology

Why Nestl just bought a personalized vitamin startup in Washington state

Univ of Washington researchers to test psilocybin in healthcare workers affected by pandemic

Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics raises 785M

Bill Gates commits 100 million to fight Alzheimers

Sana CEO reveals details about stealthy gene therapy startup that has raised more than 700M

Nohla Therapeutics raises 45M gets new HQ as it moves novel leukemia treatment closer to market

Secretive Seattle biotech company raises more than 700M to develop new ways to modify genes