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. Hugo Carmona Receives Emerging Educator Award UW Medicine | March 17, 2026 Dr. Hugo Carmona, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is the 2026 recipient…karnottMarch 17, 2026 Read More
Local News Fred Hutch Biochemist Eavesdrops on Cellular Debate About Where to Start Translating Genetic Messages Fred Hutch | March 17, 2026 Fans of reality television shows about real estate such as House Hunters will recognize a…karnottMarch 17, 2026 Read More
Local News Modulating AP-1 Enables CAR T Cells to Establish an Intratumoral Stemlike Reservoir and Overcomes Resistance to PD-1 Blockade Snyder, A., et al. | March 16, 2026 Mechanisms underlying therapeutic resistance to combined chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell and immune checkpoint…karnottMarch 16, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Functional and Antigenic Landscape of the Nipah Virus Receptor-Binding Protein Larsen, B., et al. | May 7, 2025 Nipah virus recurrently spills over to humans, causing fatal infections. The viral receptor-binding protein (RBP…karnottMay 7, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week In Vivo Functional Screens Reveal KEAP1 Loss as a Driver of Chemoresistance in Small Cell Lung Cancer Brumage, L., et al. | May 1, 2025 Exquisitely chemosensitive initially, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) exhibits dismal outcomes owing to rapid transition…karnottMay 1, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Human De Novo Mutation Rates From a Four-Generation Pedigree Reference Porubsky, D., et al. | April 29, 2025 Understanding the human de novo mutation (DNM) rate requires complete sequence information1. Here using five…karnottApril 29, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Bioprinted Platform for Parallelized Screening of Engineered Microtissues In Vivo O'Connor, C., et al. | April 23, 2025 Human engineered tissues hold great promise for therapeutic tissue regeneration and repair. Yet, development of…karnottApril 23, 2025 Read More
Local News Autopsy Study Links BP Drugs To Possible Brain Benefits Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute | February 18, 2026 Having high blood pressure significantly increases the risk of dementia later in life — but…karnottFebruary 18, 2026 Read More
Local News Behind the Breakthroughs: ISB’s Postdoctoral Fellows in Focus Institute for Systems Biology | February 18, 2026 Postdoctoral fellows are the lifeblood of research institutions, yet their contributions are often underrecognized. At…karnottFebruary 18, 2026 Read More
Local News RevealDx Receives FDA Clearance for AI Powered Lung Nodule Risk Assessment RevealDx | February 13, 2026 RevealDx, a leader in AI tools for the characterization of lung nodules, announced FDA clearance…karnottFebruary 13, 2026 Read More
Local News A-Alpha Bio Partners with Novo Nordisk to Advance AI-Driven Protein Engineering A-Alpha Bio | February 13, 2026 The partnership will help accelerate Novo Nordisk’s discovery and design of protein-based therapeutics by training…karnottFebruary 13, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles Bills to Give NSF Massive Spending Boost Advance in Senate and House, but Hurdles Remain Science | May 21, 2021 Two key congressional committees this week endorsed the idea of a sizable spending increase for…kchenMay 21, 2021 Read More
Interesting Articles In Shock Move, US Backs Waiving Patents on COVID Vaccines Nature News | May 7, 2021 In a historic move, the US government has announced that it supports waiving patent protections…kchenMay 7, 2021 Read More
Interesting Articles Biden, Congress Roll Out Big Plans to Expand National Science Foundation Science | April 9, 2021 The idea of massively expanding the budget and mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF)…kchenApril 9, 2021 Read More
Interesting Articles What’s in the Huge Pandemic Relief Bill for Science? Science | March 19, 2021 A massive $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill now on its way to President Joe Biden’s…kchenMarch 19, 2021 Read More
Awards Advancing Precision Genomics for Pediatric Leukemia Patients with Long Read Sequencing The Andy Hill CARE Fund | October 2, 2025 The Andy Hill CARE Fund has awarded a 2 year grant for $1,000,000 to the…karnottOctober 2, 2025 Read More
Awards MolES Students Honored With Top Awards for Research, Service UW Institute for Molecular Engineering and Sciences | September 30, 2025 The University of Washington’s Institute for Molecular Engineering and Sciences recognized outstanding graduate students in…karnottSeptember 30, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Olanrewaju Earns NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award UW Department of Bioengineering | September 29, 2025 Professor Ayokunle Olanrewaju has earned a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes…karnottSeptember 29, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Shailender Bhatia Receives the Lyn and Daniel Lerner Endowed Chair in Merkel Cell Carcinoma Fred Hutch | September 24, 2025 In 1995 at the age of 29, Julie Lerner received a life-changing bone marrow transplant…karnottSeptember 24, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week A Common 19 BP APOE Enhancer Deletion Is Protective Against Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans Brutman, J., et al. | March 30, 2026 The APOE-ε4/ε4 genotype is the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease, though the…karnottMarch 30, 2026 Read More
Local News A Mentor’s Support Turns Curiosity Into Courage, Doubt Into Discovery University of Washington | March 27, 2026 When Carrie Lin, ’24, joined Dr. Ayokunle (Ayo) Olanrewaju’s lab during its earliest days, she…karnottMarch 27, 2026 Read More
Local News Drs. Nora Disis and Kiran Dhillon Join XPRIZE Brain Trust for Global Visioneering UW Medicine | March 27, 2026 Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) and director of the UW Cancer Vaccine…karnottMarch 27, 2026 Read More