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September 3, 2026  |  GeekWire

Tech Moves: WRF announces new cohort of Venture Analysts

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September 2, 2026  |  Washington Research Foundation

Washington Research Foundation welcomes its ninth cohort of Venture Analysts

August 31, 2026  |  UW Engineering

Sowing the beads of life

August 31, 2026  |  Life Science Washington

NSCEB Visits Seattle to Discuss U.S. Biotechnology Competitiveness

August 20, 2026  |  WWU News

Chemistry Professor Greg O’Neil’s research team publishes a paper on bottle adapter invention

August 19, 2026  |  Washington Grain Commission

Nutrition overdrive

August 17, 2026  |  IEEE Pulse

2-D Endoscope Video Feed Becomes 3-D With NeRF-Enabled Surgical Tracking System

August 7, 2026  |  BBI Communications

SeaBridge Fellow Changho Chun: A Biotech Entrepreneur Whose Personality ‘Fits Well with the Startup Vibe’

July 31, 2026  |  GeekWire

Moving faster than planned, AI drug developer Accipiter Bio quietly tops up seed round with $10.5M

July 30, 2026  |  UW Department of Bioengineering

MAB alumni launch biocoating company with Innovation Gap Fund support

July 27, 2026  |  GeekWire

Dopl raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasounds to rural patients as it pursues FDA clearance

July 21, 2026  |  Latent Space

Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery

July 20, 2026  |  The Daily

Changing presence of killer whales in the Salish Sea raises questions about behavior

July 9, 2026  |  BBI Communications

SeaBridge Fellow Stephanie Sansbury: ‘A Moral Obligation to Use My Training to Find Better Treatments for Disease’

July 8, 2026  |  National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

NFID Announces 2026-2027 Board of Directors

July 8, 2026  |  UW Department of Bioengineering

From student to mentor

July 7, 2026  |  LinkedIn

Biobase announces pre-seed round with Nina Capital, DigiTx Partners and WRF Capital

July 6, 2026  |  Xaira

Xaira Therapeutics Announces the Appointment of Dr. Ian McCaffery as SVP, Translational Science and Early Clinical Development, and the Promotions of Dr. Ci Chu to Chief Discovery Officer and Dr. Bo Wang to Chief AI Scientist

June 29, 2026  |  National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

2026 Annual Conference on Vaccinology Research Highlights

June 29, 2026  |  Xaira

Progressable Binders: The Binders that Matter

June 26, 2026  |  The Infinite Loop

Inside mpathic's first sale

June 26, 2026  |  UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute News

UW’s ISCRM–MolES Pilot Awards fuel cross-disciplinary innovation

June 25, 2026  |  WSU Insider

Submit your Letter of Intent (LOI) for the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) awards

June 18, 2026  |  BBI Communications

Carrie Brockway is Shepherding SeaBridge Post-docs, While Helping Build Seattle as the ‘Epicenter of Synthetic Biology’

June 18, 2026  |  UW Medicine Newsroom

Studies trace coordination of rotating brain waves

June 16, 2026  |  The Guardian

The bat that weighs the same as a teaspoon of salt – and the biologist who rediscovered it

June 3, 2026  |  GeekWire

Ag tech startup wins top prize as UW’s Dempsey competition awards $92,500 across finalists

June 2, 2026  |  UW Allen School Blog

Allen School professors Magdalena Balazinska and Shwetak Patel elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as leaders and pioneers in computer science

June 1, 2026  |  UW Department of Bioengineering

AIMBE honors Chiu

June 1, 2026  |  UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

A bubble tea approach to kidney disease

May 29, 2026  |  Membrion

The real opportunity in resource recovery

May 28, 2026  |  Group14 Technologies

Forge Nano and Group14 Advance U.S.-Made High-Performance Battery Cells with U.S. Material Supply Chain

May 23, 2026  |  Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

2026 Dempsey Startup Awards Celebrate Student Entrepreneurship Across the Cascadia Corridor

May 19, 2026  |  MLCommons

Introducing the 2026 MLCommons Rising Stars

May 18, 2026  |  National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

NFID Announces Recipients of Prestigious 2026 Infectious Disease Awards

May 18, 2026  |  UW News

3 UW-affiliated graduate students among this year’s 30 Soros Fellows

May 18, 2026  |  BBI Communications

SeaBridge Program Reflects Marion Pepper’s Vision for Postdoctoral Fellowships

May 14, 2026  |  Stanford Medicine News Center

Stanford Medicine-led research links human molecular, microbial diversity with geography, ethnicity

May 13, 2026  |  UW CoMotion Blog

Washington Research Foundation renews support for cross-state UW–WSU postdoctoral entrepreneurship collaboration

May 12, 2026  |  GeekWire

Leading AI chatbots avoid harm but fall short in high-risk conversations, startup’s new benchmark finds

May 7, 2026  |  Washington Research Foundation

WRF awards $275K to University of Washington’s Korena Mafune to continue development of soil additive to reduce fertilizer costs and boost crop yields

April 30, 2026  |  Washington Research Foundation

Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships application opens on May 1

April 29, 2026  |  Washington Research Foundation

Washington Research Foundation seeks graduate students and postdocs for ninth cohort of WRF Venture Analysts

April 25, 2026  |  The News Tribune

Ag Journal: Washington State University Breadlab with a focus on tasty, nutritional bread

April 24, 2026  |  Hutch News Stories

Fred Hutch study dramatically expands therapeutic range of approved kinase drugs

April 21, 2026  |  The San Francisco Tribune

The 11 Hottest GreenTech Companies Redefining the Energy Economy

April 9, 2026  |  WSU Insider

Learn more about the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF)

April 6, 2026  |  ACS Publications

Announcing the Next Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano Medicine

March 27, 2026  |  Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Study explains Antarctic sea ice growth and sudden decline

March 23, 2026  |  Umoja Biopharma

Umoja Biopharma Appoints Dr. Marcela Maus and Dr. Athena Countouriotis to Board of Directors

March 19, 2026  |  Washington Research Foundation

WRF awards $7 million to UW Institute for Protein Design for ambitious initiative to advance AI-enabled enzyme design

March 17, 2026  |  Xaira Therapeutics

Xaira Therapeutics Launches X-Cell, Its First Virtual Cell Model, Trained on the Largest-Ever Genome-Wide Perturbation Dataset, X-Atlas/Pisces

March 17, 2026  |  Washington Research Foundation

Washington Research Foundation awards $250,000 to Seattle Children’s researchers developing next-generation brain tumor therapy

March 12, 2026  |  Group14 Technologies

Group14 Accelerates EV-Scale Production of Breakthrough Silicon Battery Material in South Korea

March 5, 2026  |  UW Foster School of Business

2026 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge Awards Give Life to Innovative Solutions

March 3, 2026  |  NW Tech Bridge

How OneRadio Is Solving the Spectrum Problem

February 24, 2026  |  Resilience Media

Group 14 Technologies is betting on silicon batteries for super fast charging

February 12, 2026  |  The Daily

High-tech lollipop, CandyCollect, provides alternative to throat swabs

February 10, 2026  |  GeekWire

Tech Moves: mpathic announces C-suite additions

February 9, 2026  |  GeekWire

Seattle startup uses clinical expertise to make AI models safer and reduce dangerous responses

February 3, 2026  |  A-Alpha Bio

A-Alpha Bio Partners with Novo Nordisk to Advance AI-Driven Protein Engineering

January 23, 2026  |  GeekWire

Tech Moves: The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology has named the first cohort for its SeaBridge Fellowship

January 22, 2026  |  Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology

SeaBridge Selects Inaugural Cohort of Eight Fellows from UW and Fred Hutch

January 22, 2026  |  UW News

UW astronomers spot record-breaking asteroid in Rubin Observatory data

January 12, 2026  |  UW Mechanical Engineering News

3D vision for surgical precision

January 10, 2026  |  The Cool Down

Tech company makes breakthrough discovery that could boost EV performance: 'I'm proud to share this'

January 8, 2026  |  Alpenglow Biosciences

Alpenglow Biosciences and PathNet Form Strategic Partnership to Advance National Platform for 3D AI Cancer Diagnostics

January 6, 2026  |  UW Population Health News

Students harness AI to shape the future of digital health

January 5, 2026  |  GeekWire

Desney Tan leaves Microsoft after 21 years leading key research and healthcare initiatives

January 5, 2026  |  Fred Hutch Science Spotlight

Guiding the attack: CXCR3 leads CAR T cells to pediatric brain tumors

January 5, 2026  |  Puget Sound Business Journal

Meet the new CEOs of 2025: Orin Levine

January 5, 2026  |  University of Washington Clean Energy Institute

Nine CEI faculty among world's highly cited researchers in 2025

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