October 16, 2025

Nobel Anniversary: David Baker Keynotes STEM Fundraiser by ARCS Foundation Seattle

Dr. David Baker, along with MSTP student Dr. Jeremiah Sims, spoke at the ARCS Foundation Seattle event held on October 9th, 2025 where a over $1.3 million was donated to support local students pursuing PhD degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math.

October 10, 2025

E25 White Coat Ceremony

We’re thrilled to recognize an extraordinary moment in the journey of our future physician-scientists. Congratulations to our E-25 class on receiving their white coats!

May 28, 2025

Congratulations Class of 2025!

Congratulations to the MSTP Class of 2025! Your dedication to both science and medicine has prepared you to make a profound impact on the future of healthcare. Wishing you success as you embark on the next phase of your journey.      

April 22, 2025

Ryan Carlson, E-16 makes Husky 100 list!

My time at the UW has been defined by a dedication to scientific discovery, advocacy and mentorship. In the lab, I helped to discover novel genes and variants causing hearing loss, I led translational studies that improved our understanding of cochlear implant outcomes, and I traveled to the Middle East to meet with families with…

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.