Awards 2025 Elaine Redding Brinster Prize Awarded to Mary-Claire King UW Medicine | March 11, 2025 The Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has awarded the 2025 Elaine…karnottMarch 11, 2025 Read More
Local News Fred Hutch Deploys AI Technology to Help Analyze Colonoscopies Fred Hutch | March 11, 2025 Endoscopists who perform colonoscopies are trained to zoom in on the nooks and crannies of…karnottMarch 11, 2025 Read More
Local News Rare Disease Day 2025: Accelerating Discovery Together Pacific Northwest Research Institute | March 10, 2025 On February 28, 2025, a powerful force gathered in Seattle: scientists, clinicians, patient advocates, rare…karnottMarch 10, 2025 Read More
Awards Fred Hutch Announces 10 Recipients of the 2025 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award Fred Hutch | March 10, 2025 Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced 10 recipients of the annual Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student…karnottMarch 10, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Coevolution of Host-Plasmid Pairs Facilitates the Emergence of Novel Multidrug Resistance Kerr, B., et al. | April 24, 2020 Multidrug resistance (MDR) of pathogens is an ongoing public health crisis exacerbated by the horizontal…emcguinnApril 24, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week RhlR-Regulated Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing in a Cystic Fibrosis Isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Dandekar, A.A., et al. | April 22, 2020 The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of airway infection in cystic fibrosis…emcguinnApril 22, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Intermediate Progenitors Support Migration of Neural Stem Cells into Dentate Gyrus Outer Neurogenic Niches Nelson, B.R., et al. | April 16, 2020 The hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) is a unique brain region maintaining neural stem cells (NCSs)…emcguinnApril 16, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Effective CRISPRa-Mediated Control of Gene Expression in Bacteria Must Overcome Strict Target Site Requirements Fontana, J., et al. | April 14, 2020 The authors describe several features of bacterial genes that impose stringent requirements on CRISPR-Cas tools…eabramovichApril 14, 2020 Read More
Local News Clay Siegall-Led Biotech, Immunome, Inks Lease for Bothell Headquarters Puget Sound Business Journal | July 2, 2024 Biotech company Immunome Inc. has signed a lease and is moving into a 29,344-square-foot headquarters…karnottJuly 2, 2024 Read More
Local News A New Path Toward Microbiome-Informed Precision Nutrition Institute for Systems Biology | July 1, 2024 Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are beneficial molecules created by the bacteria residing in our gut…karnottJuly 1, 2024 Read More
Local News Ultrasounds May Not Find This Cancer in Black Women UW Medicine | June 28, 2024 A common algorithm to check for endometrial cancer is not reliable for Black women, according…karnottJune 28, 2024 Read More
Local News Groundbreaking Study Shows Drug’s Impact on Chronic Kidney Disease; Co-Authored by ITHS Co-PI Institute of Translational Health Sciences | June 28, 2024 A promising study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that semaglutide, the…karnottJune 28, 2024 Read More
Awards Phase Genomics Lands $3.9M in Grants to Improve Testing for Chromosomal Abnormalities GeekWire | October 9, 2020 Seattle biotech company Phase Genomics announced Wednesday that it received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants totaling…emcguinnOctober 9, 2020 Read More
Awards Four UW Medicine Scientists Earn High-Risk, High-Reward Awards UW Medicine | October 9, 2020 Four faculty members at the University of Washington School of Medicine have received 2020 High-Risk,…emcguinnOctober 9, 2020 Read More
Awards Lumen Bioscience Receives $4 Million Federal Grant to Rapidly Develop Nanobody-Based COVID-19 Therapeutic Lumen Bioscience, Inc. | October 1, 2020 Lumen Bioscience, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing biologic drugs for highly prevalent diseases, and the…emcguinnOctober 1, 2020 Read More
Awards Fred Hutch Evergreen Fund Awards Six Grants to Promising Projects Fred Hutch | September 28, 2020 Six Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center teams have been selected as this year’s recipients of…emcguinnSeptember 28, 2020 Read More
Local News New Postdoc Fellowship Program Builds on Innovative SeattleHub Research Brotman Baty Institute | June 16, 2025 Applications are now open for the new SeaBridge postdoctoral fellowship program which partners with the…karnottJune 16, 2025 Read More
Local News Perspective Therapeutics Brings Energy to the Radiopharma World BioSpace | June 13, 2025 It’s hard to tell if Thijs Spoor and Michael Schultz are talking fast because they…karnottJune 13, 2025 Read More
Awards Paul Sutton Receives Fellowship Teaching Award UW Medicine | June 12, 2025 Dr. Paul Sutton , clinical professor (General Internal Medicine) is the 2024-25 recipient of the…karnottJune 12, 2025 Read More