Life sciences and health tech news roundup: Cancer care, layoffs, fundings, more

The 7 days in lifestyle sciences in the Pacific Northwest ended with an announcement several years in the creating: The UW and Fred Hutch tightened their relationship to far more intently combine cancer care and analysis.

With a much larger umbrella, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Investigate Middle has a new identify: Fred Hutchinson Most cancers Heart. The agreement also requires a re-structured partnership with Seattle Children’s.

The new arrangement will improved connect the lab and the clinic, tighten collaborative relationships and, speed scientific trials—which will benefit people, but also has the opportunity to foster new spinouts in Seattle.

And there is a new Fred Hutch spinout in town, Affini-T Therapeutics, which a short while ago raised $175 million. In an job interview, Fred Hutch researcher Phil Greenberg shared his ideas with GeekWire about operating proficiently with his new marketplace lover.

More headlines beneath, such as overall health tech news about a Seattle startup’s new partnership with Yelp.  

— Biotech vet Phil Greenberg on his new cancer-combating startup and immunotherapy’s following period

— Yelp expands health and fitness rankings for dining establishments, with aid from Seattle startup

— Silverback Therapeutics shuts down oncology application, strategies to lay off 27% of workforce

— Funding News: Enzyme style startup lands $33M dependancy restoration enterprise raises $3M

— Hottest drama at Athira: Trader phone calls for CEO substitution and needs two board seats

Here’s other existence sciences information from across the Pacific Northwest and further than:

• Extra than 20 decades after the 1st headlines lauding the completion of the human genome, it is at last accomplished. The “dark” parts of the sequence, its extra obscure sections — centromeres, telomeres, names common to the trustworthy — are total. Its fleet of repetitive DNA is performed. Geneticist Evan Eichler and other UW scientists assisted lead the effort and hard work. Seattle’s Institute for Devices Biology also contributed.
• Amazon World-wide-web Services introduced a collaboration with Raleigh-Durham, N.C.-primarily based Thread Analysis to decentralize clinical trials and make them a lot more productive.
• Impel Neuropharma’s business launch of its newly-permitted migraine treatment method was “effective,” the corporation reported in its most recent earnings report. The enterprise also just lately pulled in $100 million in new funding to transfer the products ahead.
• Bothell, Wash.-based Seagen is expanding. The enterprise posted a 38% maximize in products revenue over last year, achieving $1.4 billion.
• AGC Biologics, also Bothell-primarily based, is producing product for a vaccine against peanut allergy. The drug manufacturer will make the solution at its Heidelberg facility with its biotech associate.
• Fred Hutch scientists Jesse Bloom and Tyler Starr talked over how the COVID-19 virus is most likely to evolve in the upcoming, in a commentary in the New York Periods with their colleagues.
• Vancouver, Clean.-based Cytodyn is in difficulties with the Fda (it’s transpired just before). The company has set medical retains on two of its medical trials, for HIV and COVID-19.
• Village Achieve was section of a current tranche of items by billionaire Seattle philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The Seattle nonprofit been given $20 million to progress its get the job done offering COVID-19 vaccines and other health and fitness solutions to beneath-arrived at communities.
• Lengthy time Seattle biotech journalist and adventurer Luke Timmerman remaining on his most current quest: Trekking to Everest foundation camp with a host of lifetime science leaders to increase income for Fred Hutch.