Institute of Translational Health Sciences

Applications for our TL1 program are now open! Thoughtful mentorship, interdisciplinary interaction and focused training give our pre-doctoral TL1 trainees the skills needed to become impactful translational researchers. Learn more and sign up for an info session here: https://buff.ly/4dxfi8z

Meet the outstanding predoctoral researchers who make up the 2024-2025 cohort of our TL1 Translational Research Training Program. These 19 up-and-coming scientists come from a diverse array of health-related programs at UW and MSU. Learn more here: https://buff.ly/400ePbt

Wow! This is an exciting news for our colleagues at Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington (IPD). Congratulations to Dr. David Baker, who is not only a great scientist as shown by the Nobel Prize today and the Breakthrough Prize in 2021, but also a great mentor and successful entrepreneur. The IPD at University of Washington is a well-oiled translational “engine” that produces new discoveries, next generation scientists/entrepreneurs and successful spinoff companies. #nobelprize #proteindesign #translation

Junior Investigators looking for research support should apply for ITHS Catalyst Awards (receive up to $5K in direct costs) and Voucher Awards (receive "in-kind" service vouchers). The next deadline for the rolling application is January 1st. Learn more: https://buff.ly/47NPi5u

Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Gene and Cell Therapy Lab, a cGMP Manufacturing Facility, has been in operation since 2000. Located in the University of Washington Medical Center and adjacent to a dedicated adult Clinical Research Center, ITHS Translational Research Unit, We provide comprehensive bench-to-bedside cGMP services for investigator- and industry-sponsored studies. Our 2200 sq.ft. clean room facility has four ISO 7 suites to develop and manufacture gene modified or ex-vivo manipulated cells for novel gene and cell therapy products. Please contact us if you are interested in a collaboration to accelerate the translation of your innovative cell and gene therapies from bench to clinic! #cGMP #celltherapy #genetherapy #CART #manufacturing #translation #clinicaltrial

ITHS and OHSU are proud to announce that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $2.5 million to create a primary care research hub for research-to-clinic connectivity in the Pacific Northwest.   The award brings together two stellar networks that have been advancing clinical research in primary care settings, the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) at Oregon Health & Science University, and the #WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN), supported by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) and UW Family Medicine. This also marks a new collaboration between the CTSA program hubs, Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI) at OHSU, and the ITHS at the University of Washington. Together they are creating the Primary Care Rural and Frontier Clinical Trials Innovation Center to Advance Health Equity (PRaCTICE) Network Research Hub (NRH). The vision is to accelerate research advancement for adoption into every day clinical care, improving health outcomes and advancing health equity. Melinda Davis, PhD, MCR, director of ORPRN and the OCTRI Community and Collaboration Core, will lead the overall collaboration. Allison Cole, MD, MPH, director of WPRN and codirector of the ITHS Community Engagement Module, and Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH, associate director of WRPN and a co-investigator in the ITHS Community Engagement Module, will oversee activities in WWAMI. Read the ITHS announcement: https://lnkd.in/gCi2QHKq Read today’s NIH announcement: https://lnkd.in/gA4-66Ai #NIH #primarycarepractice #ruralhealth #researchhub #WPRN #OHSU #healthequity #OCTRI #translationalscience #translationalresearch #uwfamilymedicine #uwmedicine #scienceinseattle

Learn more about the ITHS TL1 program, a one-year mentored research training program in translational science for predoctoral students, at our first info session next week! Read more about the program and register for the Zoom Q&A session here: https://buff.ly/4dxfi8z

Congratulations to the recipients of the ITHS Acceleration Awards! ITHS has awarded $170,000 in pilot funding to three projects that aim to address significant roadblocks in clinical and translational research. Project awardees: Taran Gujral, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch Project Title: Bench-to-bedside: Using AI and patient tissues to identify personalized therapies for rare, relapsed, and refractory cancers – $50,000 Ayokunle Olanrewaju, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Washington, Project Title: User-centric microfluidics for decentralized therapeutic drug monitoring – $50,000 Co-PIs: Kerryn Reding Associate Professor, University of Washington), Weichao Yuwen (Associate Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma) Maggie Ramirez (Assistant Professor, University of Washington) Project Title: Promoting diversity and inclusion of research study participants through developing linguistically and culturally tailored virtual study assistants using generative artificial intelligence (AI) – $70,000 Read the full announcement here! https://buff.ly/4d7vgWz

Learn how ITHS pilot funds helped this team connect with a local non-profit to help diverse families! Shana Attar and Hannah Benevidez are clinical psychology graduate students working on autism research at the University of Washington. They received an ITHS Academic-Community Partnership pilot award to work with Mother Africa, a local non-profit organization founded in King County to aid African refugee and immigrant women and their families. The focus of their research was to find new ways to help culturally diverse families better access autism support services. We recently spoke with Shana and Hannah to learn more about how their ITHS pilot award helped them with this project. Read the interview here: https://buff.ly/4gdsXDW

Coming up on Wednesday, Sept 25 at 9 AM, Institute of Translational Health Sciences presents Telemedicine 2.0: Telemedicine Then and Now. Dr. Cindy Lin, of The Sports Institute at UW Medicine is one of the presenters. Find details and registers at: https://lnkd.in/gFH53BNp