Oct 19, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health, Technology, Why Washington?
Washington State industry sector leaders have a history of collaboration and cross-pollination to create cutting edge solutions. Technology companies have brought their expertise to various sectors from commerce and manufacturing to agriculture, finance and life...
Oct 11, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health
Washington State life science companies are leaders in research and development of life-saving protocols and instruments. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center have been selected to collaborate with 10 other cancer research...
Sep 21, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health
Collaboration is the key to moving rapidly into the future of healthcare research. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is working with the University of Washington to create a cloud-based resource for researchers around the world to share data. Fred...
Aug 9, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health
While global health organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are at work developing vaccines for Zika, Washington State company SpringStar is building a trap for mosquitoes. Tackling the problem at the source is an alternative to chemical spraying...
Aug 2, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health, Small Businesses
If you’re a startup and all you need is your laptop, a desk and chair, wi fi, a copier, espresso machine and maybe a conference room there are plenty of co-working and incubator spaces for you to rent by the week or the month. But if you need chemical-resistant...
Jul 5, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health
Washington entrepreneurs are accustomed to the cross-pollination and collaboration across industry sectors that happens naturally in our state. Tapping into the expertise from advanced manufacturing, Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research is utilizing a...
May 24, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health
A collaboration of researchers at the University of Washington, a Seattle-based world health organization PATH and Seattle Children’s Hospital have developed a simple cup that will help feed infants unable to nurse. A partnership with a Norwegian global health...
Apr 12, 2016 | Life Science/Global Health
Washington State’s world view centers around using it’s creativity and financial wealth to tackle world problems. Maybe it’s the fact that Washington State is in the far Northwest corner of the US and to survive the original settlers had to be...
Jan 29, 2016 | Innovation, Life Science/Global Health
From the portable heart defibrillator in the 1950s to the Scribner shunt and kidney dialysis machine in the ’60s, to bone marrow transplantation procedure in the ’70s and the Rotoblator and a vaccine vial monitor in more recent years, Washington State has...
Dec 30, 2015 | Life Science/Global Health
If researchers at the University of Washington have their way, people who have been paralyzed by injury or stroke may be able to move their limbs again in the future. The National Science Foundation has enough faith in the idea that a device can be implanted in the...
