Seven teams involving UW BioE students were among 22 teams to compete in 2023 Holloman Health Innovation Challenge (HIC), held March 2nd. Of these teams, three BioE-related teams won awards – LegUp Prosthetics, piezopulse and Endozene, which won the Grand Prize. The HIC, held by the UW Foster School of Business Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, recognizes student entrepreneurs who seek…
Five UW graduate students were selected for the 2022/2023 Bioengineering Cardiovascular Training Program (BCTP). Supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the BCTP provides funding for predoctoral students interested in cardiovascular science and engineering to train under the guidance of mentors. The five trainees, all from bioengineering – Savannah Bifulco, Ariana Frey, Kerry Kao, Casey Kiyohara and Hao…
An interdisciplinary research team led by University of Washington Chemistry Professor Alshakim Nelson received $2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program. The funding will be used to combine engineered microorganisms with 3D printing to create materials for sustainable built environments. This grant will provide funding to researchers at UW, the University of Texas at…
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for their experimental breast cancer vaccine. In November, the researchers published data from a Phase I safety trial of their vaccine, which involved 66 women with advanced-stage breast cancer. The women had undergone treatment that either put their cancer into complete remission or largely contained…
University of Washington students developing a potential test for endometriosis took home the top prize Thursday at the 8th annual UW Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge. The competition gives students the chance to make connections and win funding that could help develop their school projects into startups. The winning group, Endozene, received $15,000 sponsored by Washington Research Foundation.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has announced 12 recipients of the 2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes exceptional achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. This year’s recipients come from universities around the U.S. and study a range of topics, such as how the sense of smell develops, new technologies for gene editing, stem cell and machine…
Six researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have received nearly $3.5 million in grants from the Kuni Foundation, bringing the foundation’s support for Fred Hutch to more than $12 million since 2020. The proposed projects will evaluate circulating tumor DNA, or ctDNA, as a biomarker for Merkel cell carcinoma, or MCC; develop a therapeutic antibody to eradicate metastatic breast cancer; develop…
For almost as long as there has been a Fred Hutch, there has been a Fred Appelbaum. A key member of the team that developed bone marrow transplantation as a successful treatment for leukemia nearly half a century ago, Frederick Appelbaum, MD, was honored on Feb. 18 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at the…
Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded a $498,804 technology commercialization grant to University of Washington (UW) Institute for Protein Design (IPD) researchers James Lazarovits, Ph.D., and George Ueda, Ph.D. The funding will enable Lazarovits and Ueda to further develop their “plug and play” Antibody Cage (AbC) Platform, which converts antibodies into new structures that uniquely bind multiple targets to improve treatment efficacy…
Cancer research breakthroughs occur through the work of talented and well-resourced scientists. The CARE Fund supports recruitments of distinguished researchers from all over the world to bring their best-in-class talent to research organizations and companies in Washington. Thus far, the CARE Fund has awarded fourteen Distinguished Researchers grants in five cycles. Learn more about the program here.