Welcome to the Department of Immunology
The Department of Immunology includes 30 faculty, ~35 graduate
students and more than 70 post-doctoral trainees. We are a strongly interactive
group and share the view that the immune system provides an unparalleled
platform from which to study processes common to all of mammalian biology,
processes unique to host defense, and processes of clear and immediate
importance to the understanding and amelioration of human disease.
We are part of an extraordinarily strong and diverse program in biomedical
sciences. The University
of Washington consistently ranks in the top 2-3 institutions nationally
in support from the National
Institutes of Health. The research environment at the University of
Washington is augmented by neighboring and affiliated institutions, including
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center (FHCRC) and the Benaroya
Research Institute at Virginia Mason Research Center (BRI/VMRC). The
FHCRC is one of the foremost cancer research centers in the nation, and
the Benaroya Research Institute has in the past decade grown to become
a robust center for the study of human immunology and genetics. The
Institute for Systems Biology, which is also nearby, applies the tools
of high-throughput functional genomics, proteomics and computational biology
to define human genetic variations that contribute to disease susceptibility,
in particular susceptibility to autoimmunity, cancer and infection. The
greater Seattle immunology community also includes scientists working
at leading biotechnology companies, including
Corixa, Dendreon,
Amgen, ICOS,
Zymogenetics, SeattleGenetics,
and others, who are engaged in immunology research and drug development.
In this web site, we have attempted to describe briefly the Department
of Immunology, as well as the University of Washington and our surroundings. You
will also find a calendar of seminars and
events,our graduate program description,
requirements and application,
brief profiles of faculty interests and
recent literature citations, graduate student
publications, interests and activities, descriptions
of our facilities and cell
analysis program, directory of department personnel, course
offerings, and a section providing information on departmental policies and procedures.
We welcome your questions (spillers@u.washington.edu)
and look forward to sharing the excitement of immunology with you.
Christopher B. Wilson, MD
Professor and Chair
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