A new exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle will showcase UW Medicine surgeons and surgical training techniques at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
The exhibition, "Surgery...
09/13/2017
Every day there are more than 5,400 suicide attempts by students in grades seven through 12 in the United States. In Washington state, the suicide rate is higher than the national average.
Jennifer...
03/02/2018
The University of Washington made a giant commitment in the field of global mental health with the hiring of Dr. Pamela Collins from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Collins started in her...
03/15/2018
The University of Washington School of Medicine, part of UW Medicine, will establish the world’s first academic department devoted to the science of health metrics. The new Department of Health...
03/27/2018
Professors Christopher Murray and Alan Lopez, co-founders of the groundbreaking Global Burden of Disease Study, will receive the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. It is one of the...
05/14/2018
The 2018 Shaw Prize honors King's pioneering work in breast cancer genetics.
At the UW School of Medicine, King is a professor of genome sciences and is an American Cancer Society Professor in the...
05/23/2018
Dr. Mary-Claire King was recently on the Indiana University campus to receive the Hermann J. Muller award, and to give this year’s Muller Lecture on genetics and genomics. While she was there, she...
02/21/2019
A 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship will help support investigations by early-career scientist Kelley Harris on how modern human genomes evolved and diversified. She joined the UW School of Medicine...
05/08/2019
Barely half of U.S. obstetrics-gynecology residency programs offer instruction about transgender medicine, according to UW Medicine research published recently in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Among 100...
06/20/2019
Academic research output from UW Medicine, and the University of Washington overall, scored highly in several fields and subject areas in the recently released NTU Ranking. The ranking looks at...