October 12, 2012
Dr. W. Conrad Liles
Dr. W. Conrad Liles (entered ’80, graduated ’87) recently returned to the UW as associate chair for research in the UW Department of Medicine. He maintains an active translational research program in sepsis, host defense, inflammation, innate immunity, immunodeficiency disorders, and immunomodulatory therapy. Following residency in internal medicine at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, he returned to…
Encode Project Contributors
Two MSTP alumni, Brad Bernstein (entered ’92, graduated ‘99) and Michael Bender (entered ’82, graduated ’90) were contributors to the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) project, published in the September issue of Nature. Dr. Brad Bernstein (entered ’92, graduated ‘99) is quoted in the New York Times that the ENCODE project will “drive science forward.”…
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…
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