The Institute of Translational Health Sciences is proud to announce the 2018 Pilot Award recipients. During this funding cycle, awardees will develop healthcare related mobile applications, take on clinical challenges, and form new community based partnerships. ...
Dr. Peter Milgrom is working with the ITHS Regional Clinical Dental Research Center to test a new technology intended to prevent tooth decay and stop early childhood caries disease in its tracks. ...
Snapping the perfect picture is hard enough when the subject is staying still. Imagine trying to capture a detailed image of an object that is constantly moving at unpredictable velocities. ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require most applications for multi-site studies conducting the same protocol at each site and which are received on or after January 25, 2018 to describe the use of a single Institutional Review Board (IRB). ...
The University of Washington has moved up two spots to No. 25 of the top 1,000 research institutions worldwide. This is in large part due to the quality of medical research and faculty at the School of Medicine....
Julie Elworth is the new Director of Evaluation for the Institute of Translational Health Sciences. She works closely with staff and faculty to evaluate approaches to training and research implementation. Julie is part of the evaluation team which collects and analyzes the key data necessary...
Oregon Health & Science University, Northwestern University, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Sage Bionetworks, together with The Scripps Research Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Iowa, and The Jackson Laboratory have been awarded a $25M cooperative agreement...
Neutrophils are an important type of white blood cell and our bodies' first line of defense against infection. Neutropenia is a condition in which a patient has a deficiency of infection-fighting neutrophils. ...
The NIH has awarded $15M in funding to further their Tissue Chip Drug Screening program, which was launched by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) in 2012. Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD, Director of the Kidney Research Institute and UW Professor of Medicine, received one...
The ITHS Education Program supports investigators, graduate students, and scholars, through training opportunities and mentored career development. Applications have just opened for our three structured career development programs...