Local News NIH-Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Under Consideration for Emergency Use AuthorizationKaiser Permanente | December 18, 2020Moderna Inc. applied Nov. 30, 2020, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency…emcguinnDecember 18, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Microbial Single-Cell RNA Sequencing by Split-Pool BarcodingKuchina, A., et al. | December 18, 2020Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become an essential tool for characterizing gene expression in eukaryotes but…emcguinnDecember 18, 2020 Read More
Local News Advances in Blood Disorders Research Continue Despite COVID-19Fred Hutch | December 16, 2020Just as the COVID-19 pandemic forced the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology to go…emcguinnDecember 16, 2020 Read More
Local News UW Medicine Plans COVID-19 Vaccine RolloutUW Medicine | December 16, 2020As Pfizer seeks emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, UW Medicine is preparing to deploy its…emcguinnDecember 16, 2020 Read More
Local News Seagen Announces Positive CHMP Opinion for TUKYSA® (tucatinib) for the Treatment of Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast CancerSeagen | December 15, 2020Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of…emcguinnDecember 15, 2020 Read More
Local News ISB Creates PerSort, a New Cell Sorting Technology Aimed at Studying Drug Tolerance and Shortening Tuberculosis TreatmentInstitute for Systems Biology (ISB) | December 15, 2020Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases on earth. Last year, 1.4 million people…emcguinnDecember 15, 2020 Read More
Awards Helen Chu Named Researcher of the YearUW Department of Medicine | December 14, 2020Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) has received the Researcher of the…emcguinnDecember 14, 2020 Read More
Local News UW Medicine Faculty Listed as Highly Cited ResearchersUW Medicine | December 11, 2020More than three dozen UW Medicine scientists have been named to the Highly Cited Researchers…emcguinnDecember 11, 2020 Read More
Local News Athira Pharma Wins $15M Grant from National Institute on Aging for Trial of Alzheimer’s DrugGeekWire | December 11, 2020Seattle-based biotech company Athira Pharma announced a three-year grant totaling $15 million from the National Institute on…emcguinnDecember 11, 2020 Read More
Local News Repair of Key Immune Organ Triggered by Change in How Immune Cells DieFred Hutch | December 11, 2020A fiery form of cell death helps trigger regeneration of a critical immune organ after…emcguinnDecember 11, 2020 Read More