by Charlotte Schubert on April 23, 2022 at 7:00 amApril 24, 2022 at 10:19 am
The Life Science Innovation Northwest 2022 meeting was live and in person this week in Seattle. Hundreds of researchers and entrepreneurs mingled at the city’s convention center, attending panels on everything from the science of cell therapy to the state of biotech funding in the current bear market.
The meeting launched with a conversation between former Juno Therapeutics executives Hans Bishop and Steve Harr, who both went on to co-found Sana Biotechnology. The Seattle company went public last year in the biggest IPO ever for a preclinical biotech company. GeekWire covered the chat and spoke with Bishop and Harr in an interview afterwards.
The meeting is hosted each year by the trade group Life Science Washington, which has a new CEO, Marc Cummings. I interviewed Cummings on stage at the meeting. He talked about how to strengthen the industry and bolster the workforce, and the priorities of his organization for the future.
Read on for these headlines and more of the week’s life science news in the Pacific Northwest.
— Juno Therapeutics vets Steve Harr and Hans Bishop on building startups, working with tech, and more
— Life sciences industry in Washington state: New trade group chief on sustaining growth and bolstering workforce
— This women-led VC firm wants to address ‘a huge gap’ in funding for women’s health startups
— Biotech giant Seagen reveals plans for 270K square-foot manufacturing facility near Seattle
— Univ. of Washington researchers design and build custom machines from proteins
— Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech Absci opens new AI Research Lab in New York City
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