Dr. Mary-Claire King is awarded the American Cancer Society’s highest honor, the Medal of Honor. The society gives the award annually to five Americans who have made outstanding contributions to fighting cancer.
Dr. Andrew Sharp of the Eichler Lab is awarded the 2006 Postdoctoral Basic Research Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.
The Genome Training Grant sponsors the Second Annual Genome Training Grant Symposium, “The Genomic Basis of Evolution: Speciation, Disease Resistance & Neurodevelopment”
The department presents the Fifth Annual Genome Sciences Symposium: “Insights From Model Organisms”
Dr. David Baker is elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
The 2006 Incoming Class is selected
The 2006 Incoming Class is selected:
Lisa Beutler, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Daniel Blick, University of Texas
Nick Coley, UW Medical Scientist Training Program
Sara Di Rienzi, Bryn Mawr College
Ryan Emerson, University of Washington
Chris Murphy, Washington University
Kevin Roach, University of Washington
Alan Rubin, Pacific University
Oliver Serang, North Carolina State University
Kyle Siebenthall, Cornell University
The William H. Foege Building dedication, featuring remarks by William Foege, Bill Gates, and former president Jimmy Carter took place on March 8, at 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Joseph Felsenstein is awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos joins the department.
Dr. Ephrat Levy Lahad is on sabbatical
Dr. Ephrat Levy Lahad, Associate Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is on sabbatical in the this fall and winter. Ephrat was a Fellow in at UW between 1992-1996, during which she cloned the Alzheimer’s disease gene presenilin 2 (Levy Lahad et al Science 269: 973-977, 1995). Ephrat continues her work with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as investigations of the genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2, and the development of pre-implantation diagnosis for inherited disease.
