Alumni in the News

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.

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.

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.

March 23, 2021

David Spencer’s New Research on the Clinical Application of Whole Genome Sequencing in Leukemia

2010 UW MSTP and Genome Sciences alum, David Spencer, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Genome Center at Washington University in St. Louis. He is senior author on a new paper in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrating that whole genome sequencing for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic…