Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more
April 15, 2021 at 4:44 pm
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Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. (Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo) Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders and brothers Chad and Harlan Robins are among the directors of a new life sciences SPAC.
The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III Inc. and listed on the NASDAQ starting April 7. The SPAC is targeting companies in “three separate areas of the life sciences industry that are often fragmented life sciences tools, synthetic biology and diagnostics.”