A partnership to train physician scientists


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.


April 9, 2021

Sam Regalado Working to Improve Healthcare Equity

Sam Regalado (MSTP entry 2016) describes how he has overcome challenges and is bringing scientific discovery in Genome Sciences to bear on social determinants of health.


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…


February 10, 2021

ARCS Foundation National Recognizes Jesse Salk

2012 UW MSTP alum Jesse Salk was recently featured in the ARCS national monthly newsletter, focusing on his achievements during and after graduate school.



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