At the UW ADRC, senior and junior investigators convene at a monthly meeting called the Tau Working Group. This mentoring and study group serves as an incubator to generate new studies and mentor junior investigators. It’s a chance for investigators to bounce their hypotheses off their peers, strike up collaborations, give updates on ongoing projects, and get help with developing grant proposals that are critical to moving a career in research forward.
Caitlin Latimer, MD, PhD, UW assistant professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, who is co-leader of the ADRC Neuropathology Core, was still a neuropathology trainee when she joined the Tau Working Group. She now leads the discussions. “What I get out of this group is the interdisciplinary connections and seeing how different people approach the same problem and how they think about it,” she says.
