— Starbucks announced Cathy Smith as its chief financial officer. Smith was most recently at Nordstrom for two years, and has held CFO roles at Bright Health, Target, Express Scripts,… Read More
When Luca Foschini, head of Seattle’s Sage Bionetworks, described the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze federal grants this week, it sounded like a run on the banks… Read More
There are lots of tasks in biomedicine that are more accurately and efficiently accomplished by a computer than a person — take the detection of breast cancer from a mammogram,… Read More
— Graham Sheldon, former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New… Read More
Seattle-based nonprofit Sage Bionetworks is leading a heavily funded national effort to find new drugs to fight Alzheimer’s, a disease that has stymied the efforts of big pharma for decades.… Read More
As chief technology officer for Sage Bionetworks, Michael Kellen has the rare opportunity to merge the commercial drive of a startup with the mission-driven focus of a nonprofit. Kellen leads… Read More
Scientists aren’t known for playing well with others. After all, their world is set up to reward individual accomplishments through journal publications, professorships and grants. Lara Mangravite, president of Sage… Read More
Breast-cancer screening using mammograms certainly saves lives, but too many women receive false positives from the test and — even worse — some cancers are missed. Now Seattle researchers and… Read More
Hundreds of diseases have been linked to genetic factors, but now scientists say they’ve found some people who stay healthy even though they have disease-causing genes. So what’s their secret?… Read More
