Local News Brain Health Accelerator to Transform Our Understanding of Brain Disorders and Develop New Treatments Allen Institute | June 8, 2026 Lisa Volenec was gardening in her yard near Phoenix when she began to notice changes…karnottJune 8, 2026 Read More
Local News Bomsztyk Lab Receives Three New U.S. Patents for Tools to Accelerate Research UW Medicine | June 8, 2026 Dr. Karol Bomsztyk is a professor of medicine (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), an adjunct professor…karnottJune 8, 2026 Read More
Local News Seattle Biotech Lands Investment, Collaboration Deal for Cancer Treatments Life Science Washington | June 5, 2026 Niowave and Aptevo Therapeutics launched a strategic collaboration to support the development of radiopharmaceutical oncology…karnottJune 5, 2026 Read More
Local News Neuropixels Opto Sheds New Light Into Deepest Regions of the Brain Allen Institute | June 5, 2026 The brain communicates using tiny electrical signals. Every thought, movement, and memory emerges from patterns…karnottJune 5, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Progression To Rheumatoid Arthritis in At-Risk Individuals Is Defined by Systemic Inflammation and by T and B Cell Dysregulation Science Translational Medicine | September 29, 2025 Individuals who go on to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience a stage of disease development…karnottSeptember 29, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Genetic and Epigenetic Screens in Primary Human T Cells Link Candidate Causal Autoimmune Variants to T Cell Networks Ho, C., et al. | September 25, 2025 Genetic variants associated with autoimmune diseases are highly enriched within putative cis-regulatory regions of CD4+…karnottSeptember 25, 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
Publications of the Week Early and Opposing Neutrophil and CD4 T Cell Responses Shape Pulmonary Tuberculosis Pathology Gern, B., et al. | September 10, 2025 Pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection results in a variety of heterogeneous lesion structures, from necrotic…karnottSeptember 10, 2025 Read More
Local News Preserving Insulin in Diabetes UW Medicine | May 5, 2026 Researchers are seeking adults recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for a clinical trial of…karnottMay 5, 2026 Read More
Local News Variant Effects Seminar Series Celebrates Milestone: 100th Presenter Since 2021 Brotman Baty Institute | May 4, 2026 The Variant Effects Seminar Series (VESS), hosted online each month by the Atlas of Variant…karnottMay 4, 2026 Read More
Local News How the Body Ages: Exploring Frailty, Menopause, and the Biology of Healthspan Institute for Systems Biology | May 1, 2026 At a recent ISB Research Roundtable, Assistant Professor Dr. Alice Kane shared new insights into…karnottMay 1, 2026 Read More
Local News Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant With Pooled Stem Cell Product Shows 96% Survival and No Graft-Versus-Host-Disease in Leukemia Patients Fred Hutch | April 30, 2026 A new way of using umbilical cord blood for treating blood diseases could make the…karnottApril 30, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles Odds Improve for Winning NSF Grants, but Drop in Applications Troubles Some Observers ScienceInsider | May 11, 2022 Federal research agencies strive to fund a healthy percentage of the grant applications they receive,…dcorriganMay 11, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles Biden Bids Again to Boost Science Spending — but Faces Long Odds Nature | March 30, 2022 President Joe Biden released his latest budget request to Congress on 28 March, calling for significant new…dcorriganMarch 30, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles Rise in Defense Spending Means Smaller Increase for Science in New U.S. Budget Science Insider | March 21, 2022 Last week, Congress agreed to give roughly 5% more money to many federal science agencies…dcorriganMarch 21, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles The U.S. Just Created a Big New Biomedical Research Agency. But Questions Remain Science Magazine | March 18, 2022 President Joe Biden last week got his wish for a new agency to fund high-risk,…dcorriganMarch 18, 2022 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
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
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
Awards 2026 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge Awards Give Life to Innovative Solutions Medium | March 18, 2026 The phrase “breathing new life into something” describes not only the grand prize-winning team of…karnottMarch 18, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Visesh Kapur Elected President-Elect of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine UW Medicine | June 16, 2026 Dr. Vishesh Kapur , professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been elected as…karnottJune 16, 2026 Read More
Local News Friendship Forged in Community Leads to Collaborative Cancer Research UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine | June 16, 2026 Exactly 20 years ago, on a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, a group of undergraduate…karnottJune 16, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Chromatin Architectures Underlying Plasmid-Based Assays for Regulatory Variant Effects Mallory, B., et al. | June 15, 2026 Plasmids have fundamentally transformed how we resolve regulatory grammar across the tree of life. However,…karnottJune 15, 2026 Read More