Scientists and staff participate in annual gingerbread house-building contest
Scientists and staff members participated in the Center's annual gingerbread house-building contest on Dec. 8 as part of the Winter Employee Recognition Event. A team representing the neuroscience laboratories won the contest. More...
WaNPRC hosts 29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS
The Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) hosted the 29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS from Tuesday, Oct. 25 to Friday, Oct. 28 in 2011 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle, Washington. More...
WaNPRC welcomes science educators participating in NWABR’s CURE program
WaNPRC scientists participated in “Collaborations to Understand Research and Ethics (CURE),” a professional development program designed for science teachers. The program was developed by the NWABR and funded by a Science Education Partnership Award grant from the NIH. More...
Eberhard Fetz and Chet Moritz to contribute expertise to new NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
Eberhard Fetz, core staff scientist, and Chet Moritz, affiliate scientist, will contribute expertise to the new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the UW. More...
Kyes’ International Field Study Program strengthens U.S. ties with Indonesia
Randall Kyes ' International Field Study Program in Indonesia is one of six U.S. programs to receive funding from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to increase the number of American students studying in Indonesia. More...
Eb Fetz and colleagues receive $1 million grant to develop implantable computers
Eb Fetz, WaNPRC core staff scientist, and colleagues received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a project titled “Implantable Computers to Augment Brain Function.” Fetz is working with three UW professors on a project to develop recurrent brain-computer interfaces. More...
Researchers develop first implanted device to treat balance disorder
A patient at the UW Medical Center became the world’s first recipient of a device that aims to quell the disabling vertigo associated with Meniere’s disease. The device represents more than four years of work by Jay T. Rubinstein and James O. Phillips, WaNPRC affiliate scientists. More...
Eliza Curnow authors paper featured on cover of Human Reproduction
Eliza Curnow, a research scientist in the Center’s Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Division, authored a paper featured on the cover of the October 2010 issue of the journal Human Reproduction. More...
Shiu-Lok Hu part of team that receives $15.5 million to study HIV antibodies
Shiu-Lok Hu, WaNPRC core staff scientist, is part of a research team that received a five-year, $15.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to pursue HIV vaccine strategies. More...
WaNPRC is now part of NIH Office of the Director
All eight of the National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) are now located within the NIH Office of the Director. Specifically, the NPRCs reside within the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the newly created Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP). More…
Deadline to apply for ITHS/WaNPRC Ignition Award is Feb. 17
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) and the WaNPRC are pleased to sponsor an Ignition Award, focusing on the use of nonhuman primate models of human disease. The purpose of this Ignition Award is to explore innovative areas of nonhuman primate (NHP) research and generate preliminary data to serve as a basis for submission of new research grant applications (e.g. R01-type grant to NIH or other funding agency) and/or subsequent clinical studies. More…
Shiu-Lok Hu awarded $6.7 million from Gates Foundation for AIDS research
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Shiu-Lok Hu a $6.7 million grant that will enable his research team to join the Consortium for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), an international network of scientists launched by the Gates Foundation to design novel HIV vaccine candidates and advance the most promising candidates to clinical trials. Hu is a WaNPRC core staff scientist and the Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics at the UW School of Pharmacy. More…
29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS
The WaNPRC hosted the 29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS from Oct. 25 to Oct. 28 in Seattle. Review the abstracts for speakers and posters online. For more information, visit the symposium website.
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