Ten awardees have been selected for the ITHS Translational Research Scholars Program (TRSP). This program offers one year of high-quality, targeted, and structured career development for investigators from across the five-state WWAMI region....
ITHS TL1 Translational Research Trainee Andrew Bender sees engineering as an opportunity to realize “natural fixes” for challenges by serving as link between fundamental discoveries in science and devices or products which improve healthcare....
The ITHS is proud to announce the 2017 cohort of TL1 Pre-Doctoral Trainees. This year, 20 students were selected from across all six health science schools and the College of Engineering to develop core research competencies in translational science. ...
ITHS KL2 Scholar Jonathan Kocarnik, PhD, is focused on identifying genetic and environmental factors associated with cancer risk and survival, particularly for colorectal cancer. ...
Thanks to the ITHS KL2 training program, three early-career investigators will now have the dedicated research time and funding they need to continue pursuing their research goals....
Since 2014, the Seattle/King County Clinic has enlisted volunteers to provide free dental, vision, and medical care to thousands. Through his pilot initiative, volunteer TL1 Trainee Kailyn Elliott aims to learn more about the patients and the pop-up clinic's long-term impact on their health....
Using data from a 16-year longitudinal study, ITHS TL1 trainee Sharon Borja is studying how parenting stress differs among African American, Latino, and white parents. ...
ITHS Rising Star Dr. Kirk Hevener was recently awarded an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) to investigate the bacterial enzyme FabK as a novel, druggable target for selective therapy of Clostridium difficile infections....
Dr. Cynthia Curl's pilot study will follow 20 women through their second and third trimesters to better understand the effect of eating organic and conventional produce during pregnancy....
For students who have an interest in both clinical care and research, the ITHS TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program provides a bridge between the two fields. UW Health Sciences NewsBeat recently interviewed three UW students in the 2016 TL1 cohort about their road...
