What's Happening
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.
November 15, 2022
Promising Young Scientist Sam Regalado: Inspired by a Desire to Advance Opportunities for People of Diverse Cultures
MSTP Student, Sam Regalado (Entry year, 2016) featured as a Promising Young Scientist by the Brotman Baty Institute.
September 1, 2022
Promising Young Scientist Anna-Lisa Doebley: A Penchant for Solving Puzzles Leads to A Passion for Identifying Cancer Subtypes
MSTP Student, Anna-Lisa Doebley (Entry year, 2015) featured as a Promising Young Scientist by the Brotman Baty Institute.
August 1, 2022
New co-first author Nature paper for Megan Maurano (E-14) addressing inherited forms of autoimmunity
Megan Maurano (MSTP Entry 2014) is co-first author on a new Nature paper using mouse models to show how mutations in the gene ADAR1 incorrectly recognize self DNA as foreign and trigger autoimmune disease in the genetic disorder, Aicardi–Goutières syndrome
June 21, 2022
UW MSTP Alumni Andrew Stergachis selected for the 2022 class of Pew Biomedical Scholars
Dr. Andrew Stergachis is the only physician-scientist among the 22 early-career scientists who will receive four years of funding from the Pew Trusts to explore some of the most pressing questions in health and medicine. Andrew will unravel the structure and function of chromatin and gene regulatory features within “uncharted” regions of the human genome.
June 7, 2022
A partnership to train physician scientists
The joint University of Washington-Morehouse School of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program is a dual degree MD/PhD program.
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