Adaptive Biotechnologies
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle
- Sectors
- Biotech, Immune medicine, Diagnostics
- Founded
- 2009 Seattle business license
- Type
- Corporation Seattle business license
- Registered name
- Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation Seattle business license
- Stage
- Public
Inside the IPO: Adaptive Biotech
Chad Robins is a Cornell grad and Wharton School MBA who was working in real estate finance a decade ago when he was approached with a business idea by his brother, Harlan Robins, head of the Computational Biology Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. As Chad Robins recalled, "When he called me up in 2009 and said, 'Hey I want to start a business, I've figured out how to sequence T-cells at a high throughput,' I was like, 'Yes, I'm in!' and then I went to Wikipedia and I'm like, 'What the hell is he talking about?' I…
Microsoft's giant health investment
Washington State is suing Motel 6 after the hotel chain shared customers' personal data with federal immigration authorities. Plus, Microsoft makes a big investment in an AI-fueled health test that could screen dozens of diseases at once. That and more on this episode of the Week In Geek. Follow all our coverage and read more about this week's stories at GeekWire.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
