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
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.
Dr. Robert Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences and the William Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded the 2005 Genetics Prize of the Gruber Foundation, to be presented in October at the meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Salt Lake City . Dr. Waterston was selected for his many accomplishments, including his pivotal role in the Human Genome Project.
Research by Dr. Mark Rieder and the Nickerson Lab suggesting patients may respond to a widely prescribed anti-blood clotting drug differently because of newly identified genetic variations is featured in the New York Times.
Dr. Mary-Claire King is elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.
Dr. King is the American Cancer Society Research Professor in the departments of Medicine and Genome Sciences. Her research interests include breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness, and systemic lupus erythematosus.