Recent Honors
- UW's Elizabeth Thompson, Statistics, and Michael Bevan, Immunology, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Yoshi Kohno, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, wins Sloan Research Fellowship
- Michael Guralnick, CHDD director and UW Professor, selected to receive the Edgar A. Doll Award
- Pamela Mitchell, associate dean for research in the School of Nursing, receives the 2007 Pathfinder Distinguished Research Award
- The American College of Physicians (ACP)'s Washington Chapter honors UW Professor Douglas Paauw
Recent Major Grants
- $3 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to Genome Sciences for a comprehensive catalog of human DNaseI hypersensitive sites
- $3.5 million from the Department of Energy for the Nuclear Physics Lab for Experiemental Nuclear Physics Research
- $3.7 million from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) for the UW Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Training
- $8 million from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS)
- $10.8 million from NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute awarded as part of a national effort to expand the ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project. The project is the next phase of the Human Genome Project in which researchers will attempt to read instructions hidden within the human genome sequence and determine how to switch genes on and off.
Faculty Distinctions - Memberships and Awards
The University of Washington is proud of all our creative, innovative, and talented faculty. Below are just a few of the impressive awards and achievements UW faculty members have earned, along with the number of awards received. Please select a title for more details.
- Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards - 5
- American Academy for Arts and Sciences - 57
- American Philosophical Society - 4
- Fields Medal - 1
- Gairdner International Awards - 8
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators - 13
- Institute of Medicine - 48
- MacArthur Fellows - 11
- National Academy of Engineering - 15
- National Academy of Science - 59
- National Book Award - 2
- National Medal of Arts - 1
- National Medal Science - 5
- Nobel Prize - 6
- Presidential Early Career Awards in Science and Engineering - 20
- Pulitzer Prize - 2
Research Center Distinctions
- There are currently nine NIH Centers of Excellence at UW.
- The Center of Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research is the only NSF Science and Technology Center in all of Math & Physical Sciences in 2002.
- The UW Genome Center & Microscale Life Sciences Center are two of three NIH/NHGRI new Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science in 2002.
- The Friday Harbor Laboratory is one of the two new inaugural NIH/NIGMS Centers of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research in 2002.