Hall Health earns accreditation

The UW Hall Health Primary Care Center received a three-year certificate of accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory HealthCare, a non-profit organization. Accreditation is voluntary andrequires filing an application, completing a self-assessment and an on-site survey by an AAAHC team.

This week peer-reviewed interpretations of the human genome were published in the journals Science and Nature. (Full Story)

UW researchers were most successful at predicting the three-dimensional structure of a folded protein from a linear sequence of amino acids in a Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) experiment. (Full Story)

The Integrated Human Function Team has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to investigate human adaptations to short- and long-term weightlessness. (Full Story)