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Announcing new UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN)
Adrienne Fairhall and Tom Daniel (Biology) are to co-direct a new UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN), thanks to a recent multimillion dollar award from the Washington Research Foundation. One of four new centers to be established on UW campus, the Washington Research Foundation’s mission is to redistribute funds raised through UW patents to research endeavors…
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This is Your Brain on Art
Read about Eb Fetz’s latest collaboration with non-scientists in DXARTS, an interdisciplinary degree granting center designed to support the emergence of a new generation of hybrid artists. Eb and two faculty members from DXARTS (an artist and an art historian) taught a new course intended to introduce the basics of neuroscience to stimulate new ideas…
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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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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong