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January 20, 2023
Congratulations, Thornton Thompson, CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow!
Thornton is a postdoctoral scholar in the Moltke lab. He earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from UC Berkeley in 2017. He was recently awarded a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship.Congratulations, Thornton! Read more
December 17, 2022
Congratulations, Megan Molina, CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow!
Megan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Oberst lab. She earned her PhD in Immunobiology from the University of Arizona in 2021. She was recently awarded a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship. With support from the fellowship, Megan will explore how cell death proteins can be manipulated and deployed to trigger anti-tumor immune responses…….
December 9, 2022
Congratulations Joshua Ames – Helen Hay Whitney Fellow!
Joshua is a postdoc in the Oberst lab. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021. He is broadly interested in the idea that environmental sources of inflammation can reprogram cells to express chronic inflammatory signatures that may be associated with age related pathologies such as cognitive decline or chronic……
December 2, 2022
Check out a recent Atlantic article featuring Dr. Marion Pepper!
Check out the recent Atlantic article, “Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop Counting” that discusses changes in the way we can think about COVID immunity and vaccinations. Dr. Pepper comments in the article that given the high numbers of vaccinations and infections in the US, most Americans “can be done with counting” COVID shots……
November 28, 2022
Congratulations, Gale Lab – Highly Cited Researchers!
Congratulations to the Gale lab, named on the 2022 annual Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate. This ranking places the Gale lab among the top 1% of all cited research teams in the world across the fields of innate immunity, microbiology, and infectious disease. The Gale lab is joined by more than 50 other research……
November 1, 2022
UW Immunology Ranked #4 Globally!
The UW Department of Immunology ranked #4 globally according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings. The University of Washington rose from #7 to #6 in the rankings, and maintained its #2 ranking among U.S. public institutions. “As a global public research university, the UW’s mission is to create and accelerate……
October 14, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Nicole Arroyo – AAAS S&T Policy Fellow!
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently announced the 50th class of the Science & Technology Policy Fellows (STPF), who will help inform actionable, science-based policies throughout the U.S. government. Among the 300 highly trained scientists and engineers selected, Nicole Arroyo, Ph.D., of University of Washington will spend a year serving at……
October 7, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Marija Nadjsombati!
The Department of Immunology is pleased to congratulate Dr. Marija Nadjsombati, Immunology graduate student in the Moltke lab, for the successful defense of her dissertation entitled “Differentiation and activation of tuft cells tunes type 2 immunity in the small intestine.” Marija’s defense took place on October 3, 2022 at 3:30 pm in Brotman Auditorium in……
September 30, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Jennifer Adair and Dr. Justin Taylor!
Dr. Jennifer Adair, Associate Professor, and Dr. Justin Taylor, Associate Professor, both of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, were awarded two new NIH R01 grants: “In vivo CRISPR engineering of B cells to produce anti-HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies using novel nanoparticles” and “Targeted genetic engineering of B cells to induce protective antibody responses to viral pathogens.”……
September 10, 2022
Congratulations, Natalie Thulin – F31 Award Recipient!
Natalie is a graduate student in the Hamerman lab. She was awarded an F31 Award to investigate signals that contribute to disease development and inflammatory macrophage differentiation in a model of the autoimmune disease Macrophage Activation Syndrome. She hopes that understanding the development and function of inflammatory macrophages, as well as their contribution to disease……
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