Alumni in the News

July 12, 2012

Dr. Jared Baeten

Dr. Jared Baeten (entered ’95, graduated ’03) has been an important contributing voice to the conversation of HIV prevention via birth control methods in Africa. Seattle Weekly featured his research. Dr. Baeten is a Associate Professor of Medicine & Global Health here at the University of Washington.

Dr. Brad Bernstein

Brad Bernstein (entered ’92, graduated ‘99) received the 2012 UW Medicine Alumni Association Alumni Early Achievement Award. Dr. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and Associate Member at the Broad Institute. He is also affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology and Center for Cancer…

Dr. Jay Rubinstein

Dr. Jay Rubinstein (entered ’82, graduated ’88) was recently quoted in the New York Times regarding the use of an iPhone app as an alternative to a digital hearing aid. Dr. Rubinstein is director of the UW’s Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, as well as a professor of Otolaryngology and Bioengineering.

January 12, 2012

Greg Barsh

UW MSTP alumni Greg Barsh (entered ’77, graduated ’84) was recently invited back to the UW to give two lectures. He gave a presentation on November 30th for the Division of Medical Genetics and on December 3 for the Department of Biology. Dr. Barsh studies the genetic and developmental basis for mammalian color patterns. He…

January 2, 2012

Dan Miller publishes paper in Nature

UW MSTP alumni Dan Miller (entered ’90, graduated ’96) recently figured out the mysterious genetics of a form of muscular dystrophy, known as FSHD. The paper is published in Nature. As Dr. Miller explained in an article article in UW Today, “Most genetic mutations reduce the production of a protein, or a mutated gene might…