Bris­tol-My­ers lays off the last 63 staffers at Zy­mo­Ge­net­ics, shut­ters Seat­tle op­er­a­tions

Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb has sound­ed the bell on what re­mains of sto­ried Seat­tle biotech Zy­mo­Ge­net­ics.

As Zy­mo­Ge­net­ics va­cates the Lake Union Steam Plant build­ing that it has called home since 1993, it’s lay­ing off 63 em­ploy­ees, ac­cord­ing to a WARN no­tice filed last week. Bought out for $885 mil­lion in 2010 when Bris­tol-My­ers still had an in­ter­est in vi­rol­o­gy, the group had been fo­cused on dis­cov­ery and ear­ly man­u­fac­tur­ing for the New York-head­quar­tered big phar­ma’s re­search team.

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