Targeted Genetics’ Legacy: No Cures, But a Generation of Seattle Biotechies

Justine Dell’Aringa, associate scientist, Amgen

Ben Dutzar, scientist, Alder Biopharmaceuticals

Eric Eith, technical operations, ZymoGenetics

Paul Engelbrecht, quality control supervisor, Dendreon

Andrew Feldhaus, scientist, ZymoGenetics

Lindsay Felker, analytical biochemist, CMC-Icos

Heather Franklin, senior vice president of business development, ZymoGenetics

Victor Fung, executive director at Amgen in Seattle, manufacturing expert

Deborah Garrard, senior project manager, Seattle Genetics

Alison Grady, quality assurance associate, Seattle Genetics

Simon Grainger, Seattle account manager, VWR International

Kari Hale, associate scientist, Amgen

Paul Hara, senior director of program management, MDS Pharma Services

Pierrot Harvie, scientist, MDRNA

Vaughn Himes, executive vice president, technical operations, Seattle Genetics

Damon Jacobson, clinical research associate, Seattle Children’s Hospital

James Johnson, chief financial officer, ZymoGenetics

Lori A. Jones, cellular immunologist, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Eric Keeler, sales and business development, EMD Chemicals

Edward Kelly, assistant professor, University of Washington

Chris Kuehn, senior research associate, Trubion Pharmaceuticals

Dan LaFoe, head of manufacturing, Catch, Inc.

Dara Lockert, owner, Lockert Project Solutions

Kurt Lustig, scientist at VLST

Carmel Lynch, scientist at Seattle Genetics

Linda MacDonald (formerly Rogers), scientist, NanoString Technologies

Brad Miller, quality control supervisor, Bio-Rad Laboratories

Christine Moore, quality assurance associate, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Keith Munson, senior CMC project manager at CMC ICOS Biologics

Peter Olagunju, compliance manager, ZymoGenetics

Jason Orthel, pharmacist, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Bob Overell, president of PhaseRx

Ralph Paul, Cerep

Aaron Posey, scientist at VLST

Pauline Quigley, program manager, University of Washington Center for Systems and Translational Research on Infectious Disease (STRIDE) [Added: 10 am, 3/24/10]

Tina Quinton, patent attorney, Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness

Tom Reynolds, chief medical officer, Seattle Genetics

Aimee Roy, quality assurance supervisor, Dendreon

Tsering Sangmo, senior lab technologist

David Schubert, president of Accelerator

Todd Simpson, chief financial officer, Seattle Genetics

Stephanie Seiler, founder of Gemini BioProjects, contract communications

Chuck Smith, senior director of quality, Seattle Genetics

Tony Stepan, field applications specialist, Promega

Ryan Takeya, biotech manufacturing consultant

Joe Weil, senior scientist, Trubion Pharmceuticals

Perry Wilkins, account manager for Invitrogen

Linda Wilson, scientist, Amgen

Eden Zasloff, clinical site manager, PrexEra/Quintiles

Leah Zielinski Yount, quality assurance at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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.