257 results for: Innovation and Invention
Box of Immunex Enbrel vials, 1999
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.3
Date:1999
Immunex Enbrel dosing system and box, 1999
Immunex, founded in 1981, was Seattle's largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical firm. It was purchased by Amgen in 2001. Enbrel (etanercept) is a prescription medicine used to treat five chronic diseases, including moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
ID Number:2003.15.4
Date:1999
Box for Leukine Sargromostim, 2000
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.7
Date:2000
Box for Novantrone Mitoxantrone for Injection Concentrate, 2000
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.10
Date:2000
Braun-Diessel Bioreactor, ca. 1990
A bioreactor is a device that grows human cells or tissues. This bioreactor comes from the biotech company Immunex which was founded in Seattle in 1981 by research scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney who were then studying human hormones and proteins at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. By 2001, Immunex was the largest biotechnology company in Washington State.…
ID Number:2003.15.11
Date:Circa 1990
Specimen containers used in the labs at Immunex, 1999
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.20
Date:1999
Tray of beakers used in the labs at Immunex, ca. 1999
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostim) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001, Immunex was…
ID Number:2003.15.23
Date:1999
Gore-Tex hooded rain jacket from Mountain Safety Research (MSR), ca. 1976
Seattle-based company MSR was one of the first to use Gore-Tex for recreational wear. The revolutionary material is water-repellent, moisture wicking, and breathable, but it was pricey. Originally worn strictly for outdoor adventures, expensive high-tech gear like this jacket has found its way into daily city wear, becoming a Seattle status symbol. An MSR employee test-wore this before Gore-Tex jackets…
ID Number:2003.32.1
Date:Circa 1976
First polar fleece jacket made from recycled bottles, 1993
Plastic bottles contain the same chemical content as polyester. Local manufacturers started using polyester from recycled plastic for fleece clothing in 1993. They sent early prototypes like this one to outdoor adventurers for testing. The material in this jacket was made from 26 recycled plastic beverage bottles.
ID Number:2005.12.1
Date:1993
The NORDIpenmate, a medicinal delivery device from Zymogenetics, 1999
ZymoGenetics, established in Seattle in 1981, was one of the oldest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in the US. It was founded by two University of Washington professors. The company was located on Lake Union until it was closed in 2019 after being acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb.
ID Number:2005.26.5
Date:2000