January 8, 2025
MSTP students in the Baker Lab accompany him to Stockholm
On December 10, 2024 computational biologist and biochemistry professor, David Baker was joined by several MSTP students currently working in his Lab to Sweden to see him receive the Nobel Prize. The awards were held at Konserthuset in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. David was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for computational protein design.”…
October 3, 2024
E24 White Coat Ceremony
We are excited to celebrate a monumental achievement for our first year medical students. Family and friends travel across the country to celebrate this accomplishment.
June 27, 2024
2024 Alumni Natasha Edman co-first author on Cell paper
Natasha’s work in the Institute for Protein Design and the Baker Lab has been published in Cell. She helped lead a project showing they’re able to direct human stem cells to form new blood vessels in the lab using computer-designed proteins.
May 24, 2024
Justin Thomas, E-22, wins 2024 ASH Minority Award
University of Washington is proud to announce that Justin Thomas, has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to participate as one of nine to participate as one of nine graduate students in the 2024 ASH Minority Hematology Graduate Award (MHGA). The Minority Hematology Graduate Award, part of the ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative,…
May 2, 2024
Courtnie Paschall, E-16 makes Husky 100 list
Courtnie Paschall, MSTP founder of Invirtualis Inc. has made the 2024 Husky 100 list. Courtnie’s PhD research in the School of Medicine has helped allow her to explore new pathways in medical technology and innovation through clinical experience. Leading a team of students in advanced neuroscience research and neurotechnology development, Courtnie built the first bidirectional…
January 2, 2024
New Paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering
First author Alex DeGrave (MSTP entry 2018) and co-author Joe Janizek (MSTP entry 2016), audit the inference processes of medical-image classifiers by leveraging generative AI and the expertise of physicians.
August 3, 2023
Miguel Paredes receives Melvin Denis Diversity Travel Award
Miguel Paredes attended the 38th annual MD/PhD Conference in Colorado where he was awarded the Melvin Denis Diversity Travel Award for commitment to diversity in science and passion for scientific achievement.
May 2, 2023
Promising Young Scientist: M.D.-Ph.D. Student Nick Popp Combines Determination, Communications, and Compassion to Remove ‘Insurmountable Roadblocks’
Born with hemophilia A, Nick Popp became an advocate for himself before he understood the meaning of the word.
February 7, 2023
Promising Young Scientist: An Invaluable Guiding Principle Leads Jenny Nathans to UW’s MD-PhD Program
Jenny Nathans devoted more than two years to kicking many tires at the National Institutes of Health before arriving at the UW in 2020 where she has begun to flourish.
December 15, 2022
Amelia Wilhelm highlighted on NIGMS Biomedical Beat Blog
MSTP student, Amelia Wilhelm (Entry year, 2021), talks about her decision to pursue MD/PhD training at the University of Washington with NIGMS.
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