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...
Aug 12, 2015 | Life Science/Global Health
Activity in Washington’s life sciences industry is approaching 3 times the value in transactions as last year. New products are being licensed and coming to the marketplace, venture capital funding is flowing to fuel research and product development and...
Aug 5, 2015 | Life Science/Global Health
Finding cures and improving global health is the focus of a wide range of biotech companies in Washington State. Seattle-based Kineta has just received a contract with the National Institutes of Health to develop immunotherapy for several viral diseases such as flu...
Jun 17, 2015 | Life Science/Global Health
Innovative research into how genes affect our health and may provide life saving cures at a cellular level is at the heart of the current growth of life sciences companies in Washington State. Specifically the Seattle region is ground zero for cancer immunotherapy...
Mar 31, 2015 | Life Science/Global Health
Across the country medical research institutions are exploring a variety of protocols for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The University of Washington researchers are approaching the problem by utilizing the patient’s own genes. The UW...
Mar 17, 2015 | Life Science/Global Health
In February, Juno Therapeutics announced they were leasing a 60,000 square-foot building in Bothell to serve as a new manufacturing facility for their immunology cancer treatment. Now the company has announced that it will also keep their corporate headquarters in...
Feb 24, 2015 | Innovation, Life Science/Global Health
Two Washington companies are working to make football and other contact sports safer for players. Redmond-based Physio-Control and Kirkland-based i 1 Biometrics are tackling the problems of on-field cardiac arrest and impact sport concussions. Physio-Control will be...
