Liberia was in the midst of a devastating Ebola outbreak when Bernice Dahn, the country's chief medical officer, went to visit her ailing special assistant at his home on Sept. 20, 2014. When the 55-...
World leaders in global health are featured speakers at the University of Washington’s (UW) public symposium, "Global Health: Next Decade, Next Generation," on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Husky Union...
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Work on gene therapy is showing significant progress for restoring muscle strength and prolonging lives in dogs with a...
As 400,000 people a year are still being killed by malaria, researchers in Seattle are fervently working on a vaccine.
How close are they?
Well, they have several hurdles left but in the next 10...
A collaboration involving UW Medicine researchers reached a major milestone toward helping investigators create drug therapies and vaccines for some of the world’s major infectious diseases.
The...
09/01/2017
UW Medicine researchers recently lead a successful effort to create "designer" stem cells that might lead to advances in cancer and aging, they say.
In a paper published in the journal PNAS, the ...
09/27/2017
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Artist impression of designed mini-protein binders targeting Influenza hemagglutinin to effectively bind and neutralize the virus.
12/27/2017
UW Medicine’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) led a multi-institutional research effort in the United States and France to sucessfully treat a muscle wasting disease in dogs...
01/08/2018
Favorable interim results have been announced in a small clinical trial of a stem-cell therapy to treat patients with a rare, deadly disease called myotubular myopathy.
Drs. Martin Childers and David...
01/12/2018
The statistics are grim. For patients fighting an aggressive form of leukemia known as acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, doctors over the last 40 years have usually used a combination of two drugs to...