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The Hutch and ISB did make the list but the UW did not.
This list seems to me to be very worrisome. The ratings of postdocs are likely more realistic than ratings from news papers like US News and World Report.
I also note that the issue is not just that fellows are choosing places called “Research Center.” Vanderbilt, Emory, and UCSF are all in top 15.
Still, I think the UWSOM has a problem. The Medical School has adopted “UW Medicine” as its nom de publicity. I suspect the time has come to create a UW Research Foundation, led by scientists rather than by the same people who run the medical school and patient care system.
What strikes me is the the UDub treats its wonderful research more as a business portfolio than as true, separate effort. One specific example is the relatively low profile of the Associate Dean for Science. John Slattery, the current Associate Dean, is a very, very good administrator but he does not and can not play the role of scientific leader.
Our Dean, Paul Ramsey, also can not serve the role of leader of a research institute . Paul is a clinician, a teacher, and a very impressive CEO. Unfortunately, I have found that external folks .. politicians and industrialists …., are usually directed to Dean Ramsey rather than to the sceintific leadership of the school.
The comparison to the two Seattle institutions that did make this list, the Hutch and the ISB, is very, very obvious.