December 19, 2019

Atomic View of the Trigger for the Heartbeat

Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are imparting striking details about their function, malfunctions, disruption by many disease mutations, and response to medication. …

September 27, 2019

Cirulli & Crisa Labs Make the Cover of iScience

Work from the Cirulli and Crisa Labs uncovered a previously unknown function of Connexin 43 as a mediator of stem cell maturation into pancreatic progenitors

September 1, 2019

How the ion channel gears work in the Brain

Dr. Bill Catterall's work in the structural mechanisms of ion channels leads to new discoveries about epilepsy...

August 13, 2019

Nephi Stella elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

Nephi Stella, Neuroscience faculty and professor of pharmacology and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is one of the 8 who will be officially inducted in September during the annual…

August 8, 2019

Death stalks through ubiquitination

A new crystal structure reveals how a death degron leads to the destruction of proteins...

July 1, 2019

Congratulations Dr. Edith Wang

Dr. Wang was recently appointed as Assistant Dean for Basic Sciences at the University of Washington. Her role is to help improve basic science in medical education within the UW Medical School...

April 12, 2019

Joe Beavo wins ASPET award

This is a prestigious award named for Nobel laureate Julius Axelrod and highlights Joe's studies of the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase family of enzymes (PDEs)...