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.

April 28, 2022

New Cancer Cell Paper from Josh Veatch

2010 UW MSTP alum Joshua Veatch, Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology, has recently published a paper in Cancer Cell. His current research focus in the lab is the understanding the way CD4+ T cells are involved in the immune response to human cancer.   Read More: Neoantigen-Specific CD4+ T Cells in Human Melanoma Have Diverse…

October 20, 2021

Scientific American honors Colin Pritchard

2007 UW MSTP alum Colin Pritchard is the recipient of Scientific American’s Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award.

July 2, 2021

New Science publication on sci-Space, a spatially resolved version of sci-RNA-seq

Sanjay Srivatsan (MSTP Entry 2014) is first author on new Science publication on sci-Space, a spatially resolved version of sci-RNA-seq. 

June 2, 2021

New Papers in Nature Machine Intelligence

MSTP students Alex DeGrave (MSTP entry 2018), Joe Janizek (MSTP entry 2016), and Gabe Erion (MSTP entry 2015) Improve Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis.

Cassia Wagner Leads Study of How Coronavirus Transmission Shaped the Washington State Outbreak

Cassia Wagner (MSTP entry 2018), a first-year graduate student in Trevor Bedford’s lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is co-first author of a new study in Science Translational Medicine showing how the early outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State unfolded.

May 14, 2021

Sanjay Srivatsan Leads Efforts to Improve COVID-19 Testing

Sanjay Srivatsan’s (MSTP entry 2014) new method for COVID-19 testing eliminates the need for special swabs, reagents, and equipment, making testing simpler, faster, less costly, and more widely available.