Category: News & Announcements

New AFAR grant award advances aging research through systems biology Full press release here: https://www.afar.org/news/afar-announces-inaugural-sagol-network-geromic-awards-for-junior-faculty-recipients Given the biological complexity and heterogeneity of the aging process, the emerging field of GerOmics research—which utilizes Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Systems Research, and Tech to study the biology of aging—can play an important role in providing important insights into the aging process and many age-related diseases. Established in 2020, the Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty provides up to $100,000 for a one- to two-year award…

PBIO Postdoc Sweta Agrawal was recently featured in the NINDS podcast, Building Up the Nerve (she’s a Neuroscientist), where she talks about her approach to getting NIH funding. Sweta was recently awarded a K99, so clearly she knows what she’s doing!

Beth Buffalo’s path to a doctorate in neuroscience, even as she ticked off other boxes to become a philosophy professor, was foreshadowed in high school by a science fair experiment in her basement. Buffalo’s precocious experiment involved her hypothesis about a chemical’s effects on aggression, guidance from the University of Arkansas Medical School and 20 rats supplied by the National Center for Toxicological Research. She went on to work in the Center’s lab during summers in high school and college,…

Money matters at every career stage of course, but Early Stage Alec is now an Instructor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and the muscle research community he joined is growing and galvanizing, buoyed in just the last twelve months by two major grants. One grant gave rise to the Center for Translational Muscle Research at UW Medicine, which began operating in the spring of 2019. The other grant, from the National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS), is funding…

Loring (Larry) B Rowell, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, died at home in Seattle, Washington, on December 19, 2020, after developing cardiac and renal failure.  Born on January 27, 1930, in Lynn, Massachusetts, Larry retired in 1997 after a long scientific career.  In addition to more than 100 scientific papers, he wrote two seminal books that serve as important resources for physicians and physiologists alike – Human Circulation, Regulation during Physical Stress (1986),…

https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/claudia-moreno

John Tuthill, PhD, assistant professor in Physiology and Biophysics, was named in the 2020 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators by the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF). The NYSCF Investigator Program fosters and encourages promising early career scientists whose cutting-edge research holds the potential to accelerate treatments and cures.  Tuthill’s research focuses on proprioception, or the sense of where the body is in space. He aims to discover the fundamental principles of the nervous system and help treat patients without proprioception and those…

Two PBIO faculty members, John Tuthill and Adrienne Fairhall, are new recipients of Collaborative Research Mobility awards, co-sponsored by UW and the University of British Columbia (UBC). The aim of the awards is to stimulate collaborative research with our neighbors across the border in Canada. Dr Fairhall’s award sponsors joint retreats between the UW Computational Neuroscience Center and computational and experimental neuroscientists at UBC’s Center for Brain Health, led by Dr Tim Murphy. The UW-CNC has held joint retreats with…

After 20 years in the position, Stan stepped down as PBio Chair on June 30, 2020.  During his tenure, the department hired 10 tenure track faculty and numerous research faculty.  Of those considered for promotion, all eligible faculty were promoted with tenure and many are now full professors.  Stan increased the representation of women and minority faculty, recruiting five women and five faculty who bring increased diversity to the department. PBio continues to excel in research, focused in the fields…