Greater Seattle Chamber Meeting, Leroy Hood Address

More than 1,000 of the region’s business and civic leaders will meet on Friday, Sept. 19 for the annual meeting of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will examine global health, a $4.1 billion sector in our state that has much of its activity based in the Puget Sound region. Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology, will give the keynote address. Cost is $85. Register here.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.