Juno Therapeutics hires biotech vet in executive team expansion

Casey Coombs | Puget Sound Business Journal | 30 January 2017

“Juno Therapeutics has appointed Dr. Corsee Sanders as executive vice president and head of development operations.

Sanders will head a newly created development operations group that oversees planning, management, execution, analysis and reporting of Juno’s drug trials.

“I am delighted to join Juno at an exciting time in the company’s history, and am looking forward to being a part of developing innovative new medicines for patients with difficult diseases,” Sanders said. “I have been privileged to be a part of bringing highly successful products to market at other companies and am excited to bring that experience to Seattle and Juno.”

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Whatcom Community College to offer in-demand IT degree

Emily Hamann |Bellingham Business Journal | 30 January 2017

“Students can begin applying for Whatcom Community College’s first applied bachelor’s degree.

It’s a degree in a growing field that employers are clamoring for.

Classes for the new bachelor of applied science degree in IT networking will start in fall.

The bachelor’s degree couples with WCC’s existing two-year degrees in computer information systems and cybersecurity.

The degree covers three topics in networking that will also be available as certificates: mobile and wireless, cloud computing and industrial control systems architecture.

The program prepares students to manage computer networks — something that affects most people’s daily lives, even if they don’t realize it.”

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SpaceX adds a big new lab to its satellite development operation in Seattle area

Alan Boyle | GeekWire | 27 January 2017

“SpaceX has taken on a 40,625-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash., that will become a research and development lab for its ambitious satellite operation.

The warehouse-style space in the Redmond Ridge Corporate Center, owned by M&T Partners, is slated for a $2.1 million interior remodeling job, according to a permit application filed last month with King County.

SpaceX is already using a 30,000-square-foot office building that’s about a 10-minute drive away in Redmond.”

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Inside GoDaddy’s rapidly growing Seattle-area engineering office, with CEO Blake Irving

Todd Bishop | GeekWire |27 January 2017

“KIRKLAND, Wash. — GoDaddy might not get as much attention as the Facebooks and Googles of the world, but the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based web domain, hosting and online services giant has quietly built a major presence in the Seattle region, and it’s not done growing yet.

Established in 2013, the company’s engineering center in Kirkland, Wash., has grown to about 220 people. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving predicts that the office could approach 300 people by the end of the year. The company has expanded to a second building at the Carillon Point complex on the shores of Lake Washington, and it’s in the process of taking over an additional floor in that building, as well.

 

“The Kirkland office, and Seattle in particular, has been an amazing place for us to hire great talent,” Irving said.”

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KenSci Raises $8.5M, Delves into Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick

Benjamin Romano | Xconomy | 25 January 2017

“Seattle healthcare IT startup KenSci has a tagline that helps simplify the company’s audacious aims: Death versus data science.

Unpack that a little bit and you’ll find a company—banging its drum Wednesday with an $8.5 million Series A funding round led by Ignition Partners—that’s combing of-the-moment machine learning technology and mountains of data to attack some of the wickedest problems in the healthcare industry: problems like high hospital readmission rates, hospital-acquired infections, and over-use of costly emergency room services for conditions that might have been addressed through preventive care before they became acute.

“These are the problems that are very amenable to machine learning and artificial intelligence,” says KenSci CEO Samir Manjure.”

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