Local News Warming Climate Drives Surge in Dengue Fever Cases UW News | September 17, 2025 Warmer weather across the globe is reshaping the landscape of human health. Case in point:…karnottSeptember 17, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Brad Anawalt Receives Outstanding Educator Award UW Medicine | September 17, 2025 The Endocrine Society announced the 12 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2026 Laureate…karnottSeptember 17, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Preventing Hypocontractility-Induced Fibroblast Expansion Alleviates Dilated Cardiomyopathy Bretherton, R., et al. | September 16, 2025 Cardiomyocyte hypocontractility underlies inherited dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Yet, whether fibroblasts modify DCM phenotypes remains unclear…karnottSeptember 16, 2025 Read More
Uncategorized Dr. Elizabeth Swisher Receives the Torkelson Family Endowed Chair Fred Hutch | September 16, 2025 Elizabeth Swisher, MD, who leads gynecologic oncology at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, was recently named…karnottSeptember 16, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Proteomic Analysis Uncovers Multi-Protein Signatures Associated with Early Diabetic Kidney Disease in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Pyle, L., et al. | November 14, 2024 The onset of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in youth with type 2 diabetes mellitus often…karnottNovember 14, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week An IL-2 Mutein Increases Regulatory T Cell Suppression of Dendritic Cells via IL-10 and CTLA-4 to Promote T Cell Anergy Jamison, B., et al. | November 7, 2024 Interleukin-2 (IL-2) variants with increased CD25 dependence that selectively expand Foxp3+ regulatory T (TR) cells are…karnottNovember 7, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Label-Free, Real-Time Monitoring of Cytochrome C Drug Responses in Microdissected Tumor Biopsies with a Multi-Well Aptasensor Platform Nguyen, T., et al. | October 28, 2024 Functional assays on intact tumor biopsies can complement genomics-based approaches for precision oncology, drug testing,…karnottOctober 28, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Integrated Multimodal Cell Atlas of Alzheimer’s Disease Gabitto, M., et al. | October 22, 2024 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults. Although AD progression…karnottOctober 22, 2024 Read More
Local News Learning How to Learn with Brains, Data, and Optimization Allen Institute | August 12, 2025 When Matthew Storm Bull first saw an advertisement for the Shanahan Fellowship opportunity, he didn’t…karnottAugust 12, 2025 Read More
Local News Frazier Life Sciences Raises $1.3 Billion for Latest Fund GeekWire | August 11, 2025 Frazier Life Sciences announced Thursday that it raised $1.3 billion for its 12th fund —…karnottAugust 11, 2025 Read More
Local News RECOVER 2.0: New Insights and Next Steps in Long COVID Research Institute for Systems Biology | August 11, 2025 The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) recently hosted its second 2025 virtual Town Hall to…karnottAugust 11, 2025 Read More
Local News Gates Foundation Unveils Record-Setting $2.5 Billion Initiative Focused on Women’s Health GeekWire | August 8, 2025 The Gates Foundation today announced a $2.5 billion, five-year initiative focused on women’s health that…karnottAugust 8, 2025 Read More
Interesting Articles Seven Biopharma Trends to Watch in 2021 Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | January 22, 2021 Last year, when GEN prepared an editorial titled Eight Biopharma Trends to Watch in 2020, who could have…emcguinnJanuary 22, 2021 Read More
Interesting Articles Four Reasons for Encouragement Based on Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Results STAT News | November 12, 2020 The world has been waiting for good news on Covid-19 vaccines. Monday it got a…emcguinnNovember 12, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Commission Charts Narrow Path for Editing Human Embryos Science | September 4, 2020 No recent biomedical experiment has caused more consternation than He Jiankui’s creation of the first…emcguinnSeptember 4, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles The Career Cost of COVID-19 to Female Researchers, and How Science Should Respond nature | July 24, 2020 Early data on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on scientific-publishing output suggest that female…emcguinnJuly 24, 2020 Read More
Awards Dr. Billie Swalla Wins Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award UW Department of Biology | April 29, 2025 UW Biology Professor Emerita Billie Swalla was recently honored with the Society for Developmental Biology's…karnottApril 29, 2025 Read More
Awards Announcing the Recipients of the 2024 New Investigator Award UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research | April 24, 2025 The UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research is pleased to announce the 2024 New Investigator…karnottApril 24, 2025 Read More
Awards Neelendu Dey Inaugural Holder of Kyle Thomas Spane Endowed Chair UW Medicine | April 23, 2025 Dr. Neelendu Dey, associate professor (Gastroenterology) has been selected as the inaugural holder of the…karnottApril 23, 2025 Read More
Awards $600,000 in Awards Against Ovarian Cancer for Fred Hutch and UW Researchers Fred Hutch | April 22, 2025 In 2023, the Rivkin Center partnered with the Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment (CARE) Fund…karnottApril 22, 2025 Read More
Local News UW Institute Led by Nobel Laureate Uses AI To Develop ‘Off Switch’ for Cancer Drugs and Other Applications GeekWire | September 26, 2025 The drug interleukin-2 does a great job of goosing a patient’s immune response to certain…karnottSeptember 26, 2025 Read More
Local News Umoja Biopharma Named One of 2025’s Most Promising Biotech Companies by Endpoints News and Fierce Biotech Umoja Biopharma | September 26, 2025 Umoja Biopharma, the clinical-stage leader of in vivo cell therapies that aim to realize the…karnottSeptember 26, 2025 Read More
Local News Fred Hutch Study Finds New Life for ‘Ineffective’ Drugs Fred Hutch | September 25, 2025 Pharmaceutical companies typically test drugs on isolated cancer cells cultured under ideal conditions in a…karnottSeptember 25, 2025 Read More