This is a big event for the UW’s new South Lake Union Campus. Cameron Turtle, a student in Mike Regnier’s laboratory at the UW Center for Cardiovascular Regernative Medicine is one of of two UW students to win a 2012 Rhodes Scholarship! Cameron and Byron Gray, another UW senior w[...]
Posts Tagged ‘School of Medicine’
November 4th, 2011 - 1:30 pm § in UW
Seattle Childrens Gets $50.000.000 Gift for Research
Seattle Children’s Nabs $50M Donation for Research, Plus $15M for Nursing, Clinical Care Luke Timmerman 10/31/11 Seattle Children’s Hospital probably has more fun than most hospitals every year on Halloween, but this year it has something really big to celebrate. The hospital said today it has [...]
Governor proposes increasing cuts to UW to 2/3 of total state support! What’s left?
Oct. 27, 2011 Statement from UW President Michael K. Young regarding the governor’s proposed supplemental budget reductions As anticipated, the budget cuts released by the governor today have grave implications for the state of Washington and its citizens. The “Gr[...]
Will Congress Cut Salaries For UW School of Medicine Faculty?
The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator (PI) by 17%, from $199,700 to $165,300. This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists. Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
October 11th, 2011 - 10:26 am § in The Ave Scene
Rosetta, a child of Seattle Biotech, lays off workers.
UPDATE: The title above is incorrect. This Rosetta, despite its name, is not a spin off from the Rosetta founded by Steve Friend in Seattle. Nonetheless, the loss of Rosetta from Seattle is inestimable. Friend has assembled a world class team under Eric Schadt. Schadt left Seattle and is now bui[...]
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
Studying the Genetics Of Health
Complete Genomics to Sequence “Wellderly” Study Genomes Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Eric Topol might want to meet Edwin Abbott Abbott. Abbott, in his 19th century novel Flatland, wrote about a world where disease is punished as crime while crime is treated as disease. P[...]
October 4th, 2011 - 7:31 am § in Science
UPDATES on NIH budget
The AVE previously reported that the House version of the NIH budget held some good news, a proposed 3.3% increase. That seems impressive in these bad times but there are serious issues unmentioned in the report. 1. The bill would require that NIH award at least 9,150 new and competing rese[...]
UW part of .4 billion dollar, four year mega effort in genomics.
NIH Plans $416-Million for Genomics Research The NIH will spend $416 million over the next four years in its version of “big science.” Most of this underwrites large-scale sequencing programs at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the Genome Institute at Washington University i[...]