May 26, 2023
Congratulations, Phil Greenberg!
Professor Phil Greenberg was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Greenberg is among 120 new members and 23 international members elected “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research,” announced May 2 by the academy. Phil (sometimes referred to as Dr. T cell), is currently Professor and Head of the……
February 3, 2023
Congratulations to the Ram and Ziegler labs!
The Ram and Ziegler labs were recently featured in stories in UW Today and the UW Medicine Newsroom, detailing their recent work on regulatory T cells. The labs recently published a paper in Journal of Experimental Medicine, “Regulatory T cells suppress CD4+ effector T cell activation by controlling protein synthesis.” Read more
January 20, 2023
Congratulations, Thornton Thompson, CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow!
Thornton is a postdoctoral scholar in the Moltke lab. He earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from UC Berkeley in 2017. He was recently awarded a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship.Congratulations, Thornton! Read more
December 17, 2022
Congratulations, Megan Molina, CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow!
Megan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Oberst lab. She earned her PhD in Immunobiology from the University of Arizona in 2021. She was recently awarded a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship. With support from the fellowship, Megan will explore how cell death proteins can be manipulated and deployed to trigger anti-tumor immune responses…….
December 9, 2022
Congratulations Joshua Ames – Helen Hay Whitney Fellow!
Joshua is a postdoc in the Oberst lab. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021. He is broadly interested in the idea that environmental sources of inflammation can reprogram cells to express chronic inflammatory signatures that may be associated with age related pathologies such as cognitive decline or chronic……
December 2, 2022
Check out a recent Atlantic article featuring Dr. Marion Pepper!
Check out the recent Atlantic article, “Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop Counting” that discusses changes in the way we can think about COVID immunity and vaccinations. Dr. Pepper comments in the article that given the high numbers of vaccinations and infections in the US, most Americans “can be done with counting” COVID shots……
November 28, 2022
Congratulations, Gale Lab – Highly Cited Researchers!
Congratulations to the Gale lab, named on the 2022 annual Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate. This ranking places the Gale lab among the top 1% of all cited research teams in the world across the fields of innate immunity, microbiology, and infectious disease. The Gale lab is joined by more than 50 other research……
November 1, 2022
UW Immunology Ranked #4 Globally!
The UW Department of Immunology ranked #4 globally according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings. The University of Washington rose from #7 to #6 in the rankings, and maintained its #2 ranking among U.S. public institutions. “As a global public research university, the UW’s mission is to create and accelerate……
October 14, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Nicole Arroyo – AAAS S&T Policy Fellow!
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently announced the 50th class of the Science & Technology Policy Fellows (STPF), who will help inform actionable, science-based policies throughout the U.S. government. Among the 300 highly trained scientists and engineers selected, Nicole Arroyo, Ph.D., of University of Washington will spend a year serving at……
October 7, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Marija Nadjsombati!
The Department of Immunology is pleased to congratulate Dr. Marija Nadjsombati, Immunology graduate student in the Moltke lab, for the successful defense of her dissertation entitled “Differentiation and activation of tuft cells tunes type 2 immunity in the small intestine.” Marija’s defense took place on October 3, 2022 at 3:30 pm in Brotman Auditorium in……