AwardsFeatured Awards UWMDI Investigators, Drs. Jay Heinecke and Karin Bornfeldt Receive Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for Their MPI R01 Project UW Medicine Diabetes Institute | January 13, 2020 Dr. Jay Heinecke, Professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), and Dr. Karin Bornfeldt, Professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology…sciencecityJanuary 13, 2020 Read More
Local News Testing a Grow-the-Forest Approach to Help Skin Conditions UW Medicine | January 10, 2020 Know someone with a bad case of acne? Someday, perhaps, physicians will treat it with…sciencecityJanuary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Scientists Link Mysterious Snippets of DNA to Cell Growth and Tumor Suppression GeekWire | January 10, 2020 Why do some strings of genetic code remain virtually unchanged despite tens of millions of…sciencecityJanuary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Phase Genomics Receives $1.5MM NIH Grant to Develop Fast and Affordable Commercial Antimicrobial Resistance Tracking Kit Phase Genomics via Globe Newswire | January 10, 2020 Phase Genomics, Inc., the biotech leader providing proximity-ligation next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions for metagenome assembly, today…sciencecityJanuary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News A New Clinical Trial on the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Starts Enrollment Receive News | January 9, 2020 The Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) opened the BEAT-MS clinical trial for enrollment. BEAT-MS or “Best…sciencecityJanuary 9, 2020 Read More
Local News Dr. Thomas J. Lynch Jr. Named New President and Director of Fred Hutch Fred Hutch | January 9, 2020 Dr. Thomas J. Lynch Jr. will become Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s new president and…sciencecityJanuary 9, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week The CXCL12-CXCR4/CXCR7 Axis as a Mechanism of Immune Resistance in Gastrointestinal Malignancies Daniel, S.K., et al. | January 9, 2020 Single agent checkpoint inhibitor therapy has not been effective for most gastrointestinal solid tumors, but…sciencecityJanuary 9, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Subcellular Drug Targeting Illuminates Local Kinase Action Bucko, P.J., et al. | January 8, 2020 Deciphering how signaling enzymes operate within discrete microenvironments is fundamental to understanding biological processes. A-kinase…sciencecityJanuary 8, 2020 Read More
Local News TwinStrand Raises $16M From Madrona and Others for Next-Gen DNA Sequencing, Promising Early Cancer Detection and Other Breakthroughs GeekWire | January 8, 2020 TwinStrand Biosciences, a Seattle startup developing next-generation DNA sequencing technology that promises to lead to…sciencecityJanuary 8, 2020 Read More
Local News Science on the Horizon Fred Hutch | January 7, 2020 What’s to come in science in 2020? While scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center…sciencecityJanuary 7, 2020 Read More