Category Archives: Life_Sciences_Discovery_Fund

Life Sciences Discovery Fund to start new initiative with Omeros proceeds

Washington’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) announced “a $5 million grant to Seattle-based Omeros Corporation to discover, develop, and commercialize new drugs to treat a variety of major diseases. With successful generation of proceeds through partnering and the sales of … Continue reading

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Omeros gains $20M from Vulcan and $5M from Life Sciences Discovery Fund

Omeros Corporation, a Seattle-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced “that it has received $20 million from Vulcan Capital (Vulcan) and a grant award for $5 million from Washington State’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) to support the advancement of the Company’s … Continue reading

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UW collaboration with Artemisia BioMedical receives $1.5M from Life Sciences Discovery Fund

University of Washington, in collaboration with Artemisia BioMedical, Inc. has won a $1.5 million award from the Life Sciences Discovery Fund to advance the development of a novel cancer-treatment technology. A UW research team under the leadership of Tomikazu Sasaki, … Continue reading

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Life Sciences Discovery Fund selects six awardees in inaugural grant round

UW researcher Daniel Chiu — a Washington Technology Center past award winner — is among the winning researchers proposing novel uses of technology to improve health care. Read the Life Sciences Discovery Fund press release

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