David Shechner (UW) and Gene Yeo (UC, San Diego) received the Chan-Zuckerberg Collaborative Pairs Award. Their project looks to leverage and further develop new RNA-targeted microenvironment-mapping tools in patient-derived neurons,…
ASPET is pleased to award Dr. John D. Scott, PhD from the University of Washington, the 2024 Julius Axelrod Award in Pharmacology. The Axelrod Award was established in 1991 to honor the memory of the eminent American pharmacologist who shaped the fields of neuroscience, drug metabolism, and biochemistry and who served as a mentor for numerous eminent pharmacologists around the world.
Maryanne Kihiu awarded 2023 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is meant to enhance the training of promising students in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend…
Bill Catterall, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Washington, will receive the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Union for Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) in recognition of…
Ion Channel Pharmacology & Genetics, Autumn Quarter, 2023 (2 credits) Course Chairs: Bill Catterall and Yasemin Sancak, Pharmacology Combined Lectures and Discussion Open to interested graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research…
On April 23, 2023, Akira (Aki) Horita, Professor Emeritus, died peacefully at his home at the age of 94. He was one of the earliest faculty members in the Department…
The Yadav lab’s newly published Science Signaling paper was featured in Spectrum. It is the go-to destination for the latest news and analysis about autism research.
A new paper from the Yadav lab was published in Science Signaling. Mutations in TAOK1, which encodes a serine-threonine kinase, are associated with both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and neurodevelopmental delay…
The Grill lab in collaboration with Dr. Kirill Martemyanov’s group (UF Scripps Biomedical Labs) has used unbiased forward genetics to identify the Patched family protein PTR-25/Ptchd1 as an ancient, conserved…