Why Do Biotechs Love the IRS Today? Washington Companies Just Got $34M in Grants

PhaseRx $488,958

PhenoPath Laboratories $244,479

Poniard Pharmaceuticals $244,479

Presage Biosciences $244,479

Profibrix $244,479

Proteotech $1,167,529

Qwell Pharmaceuticals $244,479

Rarecyte $244,479

Rhine Pharmaceuticals $244,479

Scolr Pharma $251,087

Silere Medical Technology $244,479

Sound Pharmaceuticals $733,435

STB $244,479

Stratos Genomics $244,479

Syntrix Biosystems $939,604

Theraclone Sciences $977,916

Tissue Regeneration Systems $244,479

Trubion Pharmaceuticals $1,222,395

Unigen $488,958

Uptake Medical $244,479

VLST $733,435

VisionGate $359,482

VPDiagnostics $244,479

XL Sci-Tech $185,409

Xori $244,479

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.