UW investigators and colleagues have received a $750,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International to establish a new pancreatic islet processing center and conduct an islet transplantation clinical trial.
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Lambrights donate $100,000 for research

Jim Lambright, former UW football coach, and his wife Lynne have donated $100,000 to the UW School of Medicine for research into an inherited neurological disorder called Niemann-Pick C disease (NP-C). NP-C afflicts Lynne Lambright's two adult sons.
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UW faculty author leading articles in July 28th JAMA

The UW achieved a rare distinction in the July 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). All three studies in the original contributions section were led by medical school faculty members.
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Michael Katze, professor of microbiology and associate director of AIDS research at the Regional Primate Research Center, has been named one of two 1999 recipients of the Milstein Award by the International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR).