BBI Scientific Director Dr. Jay Shendure will honored October 13 by UW Medicine as the 2022 “Inventor of the Year.” The event will be 5 pm to 7:30 pm at the UW Medicine office, 850 Republican Street, in Seattle. It will also include the CoMotion Innovator Showcase, where the next generation of UW innovators will share biomedical research. For more…
Growing up in Oxford, England, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center postdoctoral researcher Dr. Nick Salisbury became fascinated with understanding “why things are” from a scientific lens. “Science is about understanding the way the world is and trying to come up with explanations,” he said. “And then you can make predictions about what will happen in the future.”
Dr. Ruth Etzioni has received a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA) from the National Cancer Institute so the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center biostatistician and holder of the Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown Endowed Chair can pursue “Modeling and Analytics for Novel Cancer Diagnostics.” The award, which comes with around $7.4 million in funding, will allow Etzioni and her team to build frameworks and tools…
UW Medicine physician/scientist Danny E. Miller has received a competitive National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award, which provides up to $1.25 million over 5 years. Miller is an assistant professor of pediatrics, Division of Genetic Medicine, and of laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The award, a part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, supports early-career…
Dr. Moritz Stolla, assistant professor (Hematology) has received the National Blood Foundation (NBF) Award for Innovative Research from the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB). This award was established in 2016 to recognize a scientist whose original research resulted in an important contribution to the body of scientific knowledge in transfusion medicine or biotherapies.
Drs. Vincenzo Cirulli, associate professor and Laura Crisa, associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), and Hannele Ruohola-Baker and Shiri Levy (Biochemistry) have received the first state-funded 2022-2023 ISCRM Team Award (ITA). Funding will allow the researchers to develop and validate a multidisciplinary approach to generate clinically applicable pancreatic tissue for transplant in diabetes treatment. The goals of the ITA-funded effort…
Sam Wasser, UW Biology Professor and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Forensic Science, was recently awarded the 2022 Lowell Thomas Award. Provided by The Explorers Club(link is external), the annual award is given thematically to a group of outstanding explorers to recognize excellence in domains or fields of exploration. In the 2022 Lowell Thomas Award announcement(link is external), Sam ” is acknowledged…
Drs. Vincenzo Cirulli, associate professor and Laura Crisa, associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), and Hannele Ruohola-Baker and Shiri Levy (Biochemistry) have received the first state-funded 2022-2023 Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) Team Award (ITA). The project will leverage the complementary backgrounds of the Cirulli, Ruohola-Baker, and Crisa laboratories to develop methods of yielding homogenous populations of functionally stable…
ISCRM faculty members Laura Crisa, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition, and Farid Moussavi-Harami, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/Cardiology, have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune diseases that occurs when the pancreas stops producing insulin for reasons that are not well understood.…
UW Bioengineering undergraduate students Fang-Hua (Flora) Hu, and Rachel Shi were honored with 2022 Population Health Recognition Awards for their efforts in addressing human health, environmental resilience, and social and economic equity. The awards program is a partnership of the UW Population Health Initiative and the Undergraduate Research Symposium. A leadership panel from the Population Health Initiative selected Fang-Hua’s and Rachel’s work from more than…