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Chet Moritz and Adrienne Fairhall receive $1.5 million grant for brain-computer interface research
The Paul Allen Family Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million grant over three years to a team of interdisciplinary researchers at the UW. Chet Moritz of Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiology & Biophysics and Adrienne Fairhall of Physiology & Biophysics & Physics, along with Joshua Smith of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering will work…
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Bertil Hille wins NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
Bertil Hille, the Wayne E. Crill Endowed Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, has been selected as a winner of a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award for his research supported by NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Javits Awards provide long-term support to investigators with a history of exceptional talent, imagination, and preeminent scientific achievement.…
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Stan Froehner elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Stan Froehner, professor and chair of Physiology & Biophysics, is one of 15 University of Washington faculty members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS). The WSAS was established in 2005 by Governor Christine Gregoire to provide expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform public policy making in Washington and to increase the…
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PBIO ranks second in total grant funding nationally
Based on the most recent survey conducted by the ACDP, our department ranks second in nation in total grant funding. The survey includes funding from NIH and all other sources, including NSF and private foundations. In 2012, the most recent year surveyed, the department brought in $11.1 million in research grant support.
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Beth Buffalo joins PBIO as associate professor
We are delighted to welcome Beth Buffalo to the UW faculty as a tenured associate professor of Physiology & Biophysics and core staff member of the Washington National Primate Research Center. Beth studied Philosophy at Wellesley College where she was named a Trustee Scholar, and then went to UCSD for graduate study with Stuart Zola…
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Sharona Gordon promoted to professor
Sharona Gordon has been promoted to professor of Physiology & Biophysics, effective July 1. She joined the department as a joint faculty member in 1999 and became a primary appointee in 2003. Her laboratory is widely recognized for studies for TRPV1 channels and their role in pain. In addition, Sharona is very active in the…
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