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Andres was interviewed about his science and his social justice work by Scientists Advocating for Representation, Justice and Equity. See his interview here: http://students.washington.edu/sarje/andresbarria

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According to the annual survey conducted the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology, our department ranks #1 in total grant support. PBIO faculty won more than $15.1 in grant funds in 2017, almost $5 million higher than the #2 department. We also ranked 2nd in dollars per square foot of research space and 3rd…

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To design programs that meet the career needs of postdoctoral scholars, it is essential to understand what those needs are. Sharona Gordon, professor of Physiology & Biophysics, together with Rebecca Price (UW-Bothell) and Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon (UW SON), recently published their work analyzing how postdoc’s scientific identities influenced their career goals. Their identified two discourses: bench…

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Eb Fetz was interviewed by The Economist about his work on brain-computer interfaces.  The story was featured in the magazine’s Technology Quarterly.

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Beth Buffalo has been selected as one of 4 scientists to win the 2018 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award by the McKnight Foundation.  The funds from this award will be used to study “Neural Dynamics of Memory and Cognition in the Primate Hippocampal Formation.”  The hippocampus is a small area of the brain associated with…

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Stan Froehner is one of 8 UW faculty elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was recognized for his research on muscular dystrophy, particularly the discovery and studies of syntrophins. The syntrophins are a family of proteins that link signaling proteins to dystrophin, the protein defective in Duchenne…

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