09/10/2020
David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the UW School of Medicine and director of the Institute for Protein Design is among four University of Washington professors named winners of the 2021...
09/26/2019
In the margin of his thesis at his medical school in Greece in the 1950s, his advisor wrote “young dreamer.” The comment was directed at his hopes for treating inherited blood disorders affecting...
09/11/2018
The walls along the hallways of the University of Washington School of Medicine's surgery department are lined with portraits of (mostly) white surgeons.
One artist/nurse decided to change 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...
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...
04/30/2018
[The Dan David Prize award ceremony will be live-streamed from Israel at 10 a.m. PDT, Sunday, May 6, 2018. (update May 8: you can watch her receive the award at this YouTube link) ]
One summer...
02/08/2018
American genetics scientist Mary-Claire King, credited with connecting a gene mutation with breast cancer, is among the winners of Israel’s prestigious Dan David Prize this year.
The prize is named...
09/19/2017
In an essay, Mary-Claire King describes the lows and highs of the week of April Fools’ Day in 1981. Her husband announced he was leaving, having fallen in love with a grad student. Then her house...