Local News Drs. Nora Disis and Kiran Dhillon Join XPRIZE Brain Trust for Global Visioneering UW Medicine | March 27, 2026 Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) and director of the UW Cancer Vaccine…karnottMarch 27, 2026 Read More
Awards Washington Research Foundation Awards $7 Million to UW Institute for Protein Design for Ambitious Initiative to Advance AI-Enabled Enzyme Design Washington Research Foundation | March 26, 2026 Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded a $7 million grant to the University of Washington…karnottMarch 26, 2026 Read More
Local News Findings May Inform New Approach to Huntington’s Disease UW Medicine | March 26, 2026 Treatments that target a fragment of the mutant protein that causes Huntington's disease might be…karnottMarch 26, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Lisa Tachiki Named Kuni Foundation 2025 Cancer Research Fellow Fred Hutch | March 25, 2026 Fred Hutch Cancer Center medical oncologist Lisa Tachiki, MD, has been named a 2025 Cancer…karnottMarch 25, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Divergent Effects of a Treg-Selective IL-2 Mutein on Influenza-Specific T Cell Responses Albe, J., et al. | March 25, 2026 Enhancing regulatory T cell (Treg) function offers a compelling therapeutic strategy for autoimmune disease. Engineered…karnottMarch 25, 2026 Read More
Local News Mind Trip: How Psilocybin Changes the Brain Allen Institute | March 24, 2026 “The rewiring in the mouse brain from psilocybin is not haphazard; there’s a definite pattern…karnottMarch 24, 2026 Read More
Local News Fred Hutch Collaboration Reveals Molecular Vulnerability in Rare Childhood Brain Cancer Allen Institute | March 24, 2026 When broken strands of DNA get repaired improperly, they can stitch together in new “Frankengene”…karnottMarch 24, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Dynamics of Phage-Host Interactions in Bacteroides fragilis Resolved by Single-Cell Transcriptomics Gupta, A., et al. | March 23, 2026 The interactions between lytic phages and their hosts are typically studied in bulk culture, which…karnottMarch 23, 2026 Read More
Local News Giving CAR T Cells a Portable Pit Crew Fred Hutch | March 23, 2026 Over the last decade, the cellular cancer immunotherapy known as CAR T-cell therapy has roared…karnottMarch 23, 2026 Read More
Awards Washington Research Foundation Awards $250,000 to Seattle Children’s Researchers Developing Next-Generation Brain Tumor Therapy Washington Research Foundation | March 23, 2026 Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded $250,000 to Jim Olson, M.D., Ph.D., and Andrew (Drew)…karnottMarch 23, 2026 Read More