Research Centers

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 and Physical Sciences in 2002.
• The UW Genome Center and 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.

Research Center News

• UW to lead local center in landmark national study of children's health
• UW Medical Center, specialty programs rank among best in nation
• $105 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a new research center that will conduct independent, rigorous evaluations of health programs worldwide

Listing of UW Research Centers

• Addictive Behaviors Research Center
• Advanced Power Technologies Center (APT)
• AIDS Clinical Trials Unit
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
• Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registry
• Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
• APEC Internet Collaboration Center
• Autism Center
• Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC)
• Benefit Cost Analysis Center
• Biomolecular Imaging Center
• Biomolecular Structure Center
• Bracken Pharmaceutical Care Learning Center
• Burke Museum
• Canadian Studies Center
• Cardiovascular (AVID) Clinical Trials Center
• Cardiovascular Research and Training Center
• Cascade Center for Public Service
• Center Connect
• Center for Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS)
• Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH)
• Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP)
• Center for American Politics and Public Policy
• Center for Anxiety and Depression
• Center for Applied Microtechnology (CAM)
• Center for Cell Dynamics (Within Friday Harbor Labs)
• Center for Chemically Related Illness
• Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
• Center for Clinical Research
• Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
• Center for Comparative Law and Society Studies
• Center for Cost and Outcomes Research
• Center for Curriculum Transformation
• Center for Developmental Biology
• Center for Disability Policy and Research
• Center for Drug Addiction Research
• Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health
• Center for Educational Leadership
• Center for Educational Renewal
• Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis (CENTC)
• Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)
• Center for Environment, Education and Design Studies (CEEDS)
• Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
• Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality
• Center for Genomics and Public Health
• Center for Global Studies
• Center for Health Professions Interprofessional Education
• Center for Health Workforce Distribution Studies
• Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations (CHAMMP)
• Center for Human-Information Interaction (CHII)
• Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound (CIMU)
• Center for Infant Mental Health and Development
• Center for Information and Society
• Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)
• Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education
• Center for Instructional Development and Research
• Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)
• Center for Intelligent Materials and Systems (CIMS)
• Center for Interdisciiplinary Geriatric Research
• Center for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR)
• Center for Law Science and Global Health
• Center for Medical Education Research
• Center for Multicultural Education
• Center for Nanotechnology
• Center for Neurogenetics and Neurotherapeutics (CN&N)
• Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence
• Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC)
• Center for Public Health Informatics
• Center for Public Health Nutrition
• Center for Research in Reproduction and Contraception (CRRC)
• Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR)
• Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
• Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
• Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest
• Center for Technology and Disability Studies
• Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education
• Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research
• Center for the Design of Analog-Digital Integraated Circuits (CDADIC)
• Center for the Study of Education and Poverty (C-STEP)
• Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy
• Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
• Center for Urban Horticulture (UW Botanic Gardens)
• Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis
• Center for Videoendoscopic Surgery (CVES)
• Center for West European Studies
• Center For Women's Health and Gender Research
• Center for Women's Welfare
• Center of Excellence in Women's Health
• Center on Human Development and Disability
• Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research (CMDITR)
• Center on Reinventing Public Education
• CFAR Global AIDS Medical Informatics Training Program (CFAR-GAMIT)
• Child Health Institute
• Child Study and Treatment Center (Tacoma)
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Center
• CLINICAL NUTRITION RESEARCH UNIT
• Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center
• Columbia Basin Research
• Comprehensive Center for Oral Health Research
• Cystic Fibrosis Center (Children's Hospital)
• Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Network
• Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
• DeTornyay Center for Healthy Aging
• Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
• Diagnostic Imaging Sciences Center
• Drug Information Center (UWMC)
• East Asian Studies Center
• Easterbrook Photograph and Image Center
• Economic Policy Research Center
• End of Life Care Research Program
• Engineering Center for Surfaces, Polymers, and Colloids
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
• European Union Center
• Experimental Education Unit
• Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
• Foot and Ankle Institute at Harborview Medical Center
• Fragile X Research Center (within CHDD)
• Friday Harbor Laboratories
• General Clinical Research Center (Within ITHS)
• Global Business Center (UWCIBER)
• Global Health Resource Center
• Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars
• Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress
• Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
• Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
• Health Alliance International (HAI)
• Health Promotion Research Center
• Herbert J Ellison Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center (REECAS)
• Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT LAB)
• Human Rights Education & Research Network
• Human Services Policy Center (HSPC)
• Institute for Collaborative Building
• Institute for Economic Research
• Institute for Educational Inquiry
• Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States
• Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies
• Institute for Hazard Mitigation Planning and Research
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
• Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M)
• Institute for International Indigenous Health and Child Welfare Research
• Institute for International Policy
• Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
• Institute for Multigenerational Health, Development and Equality
• Institute for National Security Education & Research (INSER)
• Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT)
• Institute for Public Health Genetics
• Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication
• Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM)
• Institute for Surgical & Interventional Simulation (ISIS)
• Institute for the Study of Educational Policy
• Institute for Translational Health Sciences
• Institute on Aging
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Interdisciplinary Center for Structural Informatics
• International Clinical Research Center (ICRC)
• International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH)
• Joint Institute for Nanoscience
• Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
• K-12 Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
• Learining in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center
• Mark Lindenberg Center
• MESA Air Pollution Study
• Microscale Life Sciences Center
• Middle East Studies Center
• MRSEC: Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center
• Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center (MCRC)
• Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MS RRTC)
• Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center
• Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy
• Nathan Shock Ctr of Excellence in Basic Biology of Aging
• NATIONAL ALZHEIMERS COORDINATING CENTER (NACC)
• National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education (Gero-Ed Center)
• National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems (NESAC/BIO)
• Native American Law Center
• NIDA Center for Functional Genomics and HCV-Associated Liver Disease
• Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center
• Northwest Center for Livable Communities
• Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
• Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
• Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
• Northwest Geriatric Education Center
• Northwest Institute for Children and Families
• Northwest Research Center for Statistics and the Environment
• Northwest/Alaska Cent. to Reduce Oral Health Disparities
• NSR Physiome Project
• Olympic Natural Resource Center
• OSHA Training Institute Education Center
• Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
• Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
• Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
• Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Research and Education
• Pacific Northwest Center for Geologic Mapping Studies (GeoMapNW)
• Pacific Northwest Center for Oceans and Human Health
• Pacific Northwest Consortium-Collaborative Access Team (PNC-CAT)
• Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystems Study Center (CESU)
• Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program
• Polar Science Center
• Precision Forestry Cooperative
• Prevention Research Training Program
• Program in Drug Interactions
• Program on Values in Society
• Psychological Services and Training Center
• Quaternary Research Center
• Regional Clinical Dental Research Center
• Regional Epilepsy Center
• Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory
• Research Center for International Economics (RCIE)
• Research Institute for Space Exploration (RISE)
• Resource Center for Health Policy
• Resource Facility for Population Kinetics
• Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies
• Rural Technology Initiative
• SCCOR in Translational Research in Acute Lung Injury
• Seattle Comparative Mouse Genomics Center
• Seattle Quality of Life Research Group (SEAQOL)
• Seattle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
• Seattle-King County Center for Resuscitation Research
• Sexually Transmitted Infections and Topical Microbicides Cooperative Research Center
• Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology
• Social Development Research Group (SDRG)
• South Asian Studies Center
• Southeast Asian Studies Center
• Stand Management Cooperative (SMC)
• Statistical and Clinical Coordinating Center for HIVNET
• Superfund Basic Research Program
• The Water Center
• The WWAMI RCE for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Transportation Northwest (TransNow)
• Tumor Vaccine Group
• University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
• University of Washington Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
• University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB)
• University of Washington Molecular Imaging Center
• University of Washington Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center (UW LDC)
• University of Washington Rome Center
• Urban Ecology Research Laboratory
• UW Center for Anxiety and Trauma Stress (UWCATS)
• UW Center for Obesity Research (UWCOR)
• UW Center for Rural Health Research and Education (CRHRE)
• UW Center on Outcomes Research in Rehabilitation (UWCORR)
• UW Genome Center
• UW Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center
• UW Specialized Center of Research on Pharmacology of Drugs in Pregnancy
• UW Traumatic Brain Injury Model System
• Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
• Vision Research Center (Ophthalmology)
• W. M. Keck Center for Advanced Studies in Neural Signaling
• Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
• Washington Center for Teaching & Learning
• Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
• Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality
• Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium
• Washington National Primate Research Center
• Washington Poison Center
• Washington Sea Grant Program
• Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC)
• West Coast Poverty Center
• Western Regional Aquaculture Center (WRAC)
• William D. Ruckelshouse Center (Policy Consensus Center)
• Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility
• Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center
• WWAMI Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)
• Yeast Resource Center