On May 24, 2017, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded $24 million to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center…
On Mar. 30, 2017, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that the Bezos family had donated $35…
On Jan. 25, 2017, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $279 million to the University of Washington’s…
On Oct. 25, 2016, the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative received a $210 million gift from the…
Washington Life Science Evolution illustrates life science companies and non-profit research organizations located in the State of Washington…
On Apr. 5, 2016, Physio-Control was acquired by Michigan-based Stryker Corp. which acquired 100% of the stock of…
On Mar. 14, 2006, Providence Health & Services and the Institute for Systems Biology announced an affiliation that…
On Aug. 6, 2015, a Winlock, Washington wood buyer and his lumber mill plead guilty in U.S. District…
On Jul. 14, 2015, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) announced that Carla J. Greenbaum, MD, had…
On Jun. 29, 2015, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority (LSDF) was defunded by the Washington State Legislature,…
Washington Life Science History is a poster that illustrates significant events in the development of the life science…
On May 6, 2015, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National…
On Mar. 19, 2015, a contract was awarded to DGR Grant Construction of Richland, Washington, to build a…
On Feb. 23, 2015, a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of the assets of Dendreon Corp., a Seattle-based…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Juno Therapeutics announced the closing of its initial public offering of 12.7 million shares…
On Dec. 8, 2014, philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Allen announced a commitment of $100 million to create…
On Oct. 20, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (OHSU) announced it was…
On Jul. 29, 2014, Amgen announced the closure of facilities in Seattle and Bothell which resulted in the…
On Jun. 2, 2014, Omeros received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Omidria for use in…
On Apr. 7, 2014, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that the Bezos family had committed $20…
On Jan. 29, 2014, Neanderthal genes were unearthed in modern humans by University of Washington scientists Benjamin Vernot…
On Jan. 24, 2014, InBios announced that it had licensed a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) West Nile…
On Jan. 23, 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason…
On Dec. 3, 2013, Juno Theraputics, a biotechnology company focused on bringing forward novel immunotherapies for cancer, was…
On Nov. 9, 2013, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington launched…
On Jul. 23, 2013, Matrical Bioscience announced it has had been acquired by Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Brooks Automation for…
On Jun. 25, 2013, NanoString Technologies launched an initial public offering at $10.00 per share and raised $54…
On May 14, 2013, a University of Washington led team announced that DNA analysis had unearthed the origins…
On Apr. 17, 2013, researchers from the University of Washington, Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. announced that…
On Mar. 27, 2013, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre…