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Seattle-based Shape Therapeutics raises $112M to develop RNA-editing and gene therapies

July 17, 2021 by admin

Shape CEO Francois Vigneault. (Shape photo) Shape Therapeutics, a Seattle preclinical biotech company developing RNA editing and gene therapy technologies, has raised $ 112 million. The company’s RNA editing technologies …

Seattle-based Icosavax, which is developing COVID-19 vaccines, files for IPO 4 years after launch

July 7, 2021 by admin

Univ. of Wash.-spinout Icosavax raises $100M to fund vaccine development technology

Icosavax creates virus-like particles using technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (Icosavax photo) Seattle-based Icosavax filed for an IPO just four years after it started …