Local News A Bubble Tea Approach to Kidney Disease UW College of Engineering | June 17, 2026 A new treatment for chronic kidney disease (CKD) born out of CEE research might look…karnottJune 17, 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
Publications of the Week Human De Novo Mutation Rates From a Four-Generation Pedigree Reference Porubsky, D., et al. | June 19, 2025 Understanding the human de novo mutation (DNM) rate requires complete sequence information1. Here using five…karnottJune 19, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Longitudinally Stable T Cell Function and Innate Immune Activation Distinguish Healthy Adult Immunotypes Science Translational Medicine | June 9, 2025 Understanding immune system variation between and within individuals may offer insight into healthy aging and…karnottJune 9, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Decoding Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Networks by RNA-Linked CRISPR Screening in Human Cells Nugent, P., et al. | June 4, 2025 RNAs undergo a complex choreography of metabolic processes that are regulated by thousands of RNA-associated…karnottJune 4, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Myeloid Cell Genome-Wide Screen Identifies Variants Associated with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-Induced Cytokine Transcriptional Responses Ivie, J.J., et al. | May 28, 2025 Immune and clinical outcomes to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection vary greatly between individuals yet the…sciencecityMay 28, 2025 Read More
Local News From the ‘Scurfy’ Mouse to the Nobel Prize: How a Seattle Biotech Pioneer’s Long Game Paid Off GeekWire | April 27, 2026 The biotech industry is increasingly shaped by computer-designed drugs and investor pressure to move fast…karnottApril 27, 2026 Read More
Local News Promising Young Scientist: Gabrielle Ferra Likes to ‘Parse Out Problems and Understand Them’ Brotman Baty Institute | April 24, 2026 Mister Rogers likely was directing those words at young children, not a then-17-year-old high school…karnottApril 24, 2026 Read More
Local News Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and GentiBio Highlight Long Standing Scientific Collaboration Advancing GNTI 122 Into the Clinic Benaroya Research Institute | April 24, 2026 Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI), Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and…karnottApril 24, 2026 Read More
Local News Is There a Way to Boost Immunotherapy Response? Fred Hutch | April 24, 2026 Immunotherapy has joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as one of the major pillars of cancer…karnottApril 24, 2026 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 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Funds 16 UW Post Docs Across the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering and the College of the Environment UW News | February 11, 2026 The University of Washington was awarded $2.5 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation…karnottFebruary 11, 2026 Read More
Awards Newly Elected Members of the American Society of Clinical Investigation UW Medicine | February 6, 2026 Congratulations to the newly elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation , Dr.…karnottFebruary 6, 2026 Read More
Awards SeaBridge Selects Inaugural Cohort of Eight Fellows from UW and Fred Hutch Brotman Baty Institute | January 29, 2026 The first cohort of postdoctoral researchers has been selected for the SeaBridge Fellowship, a translational…karnottJanuary 29, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Nancy Davidson Receives Science of Oncology Award UW Medicine | January 26, 2026 Dr. Nancy Davidson, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is the 2026 recipient of the David Karnofsky…karnottJanuary 26, 2026 Read More
Local News BRI’s Bernard Khor, MD, PhD, Joins DSC Board of Directors Benaroya Research Institute | June 30, 2026 Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) is excited to share that BRI faculty member Bernard Khor, MD,…karnottJune 30, 2026 Read More
Awards Cary Paine Honored as Teacher of the Year UW Medicine | June 30, 2026 Dr. Cary Paine, associate professor of clinical practice (Nephrology) was selected as the 2026 Nephrology…karnottJune 30, 2026 Read More
Local News MSS 2027 Symposium is Returning to its Seattle Roots Brotman Baty Institute | June 29, 2026 The annual Mutational Scanning Symposium, hosted by the Atlas of Variant Effects (AVE) Alliance, is…karnottJune 29, 2026 Read More