Marko Liias

Washington companies are literally stopping cancer!  Seattle-based Dendreon has received national headlines this week as the FDA approved the first ever cancer vaccine. 

Provenge is a new vaccine designed to help fight prostate cancer by activating the patient's own immune system to figth the cancer.  Dendreon has been working for 18 years to develop this new treatment, and the company is expected to make billions of dollars in the next decade.

Our innovation economy is working.  Washington state has become a hub of research and development in the life sciences.  Leaders in our community are literally saving lives with new medicines and new breakthroughs.

This session, I joined the biotech industry in fighting a proposal to raise taxes on research and development.  As the House leader, I brought together a coalition of my colleagues to table the proposal.

Our economic recovery depends on the strength of our region's innovators, from biotech to software to the aerospace industry.  I will continue to stand up for them!

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