Events Calendar
Grand Rounds
Our academic conferences have ended for the current year.
They will resume in October. Please visit our webpage in the fall for information on all our speaker series and educational conferences.
Past Events
Division's 50th Anniversary Celebration ~ October 2008
Professorship Celebration ~ June 2008
Dr. Robert Willkens' Retirement Party
Positions Open
Faculty, Postdocs & Medical Students
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Dr. Rhiannon joins division
Dr. Julia Rhiannon joins UW Rheumatology as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinician /Educator. She will divide her time between Harborview and UW Medical Center. Dr. Rhiannon did her rheumatology fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver and her research in the laboratory of Pippa Marrack, Ph.D., FRS.
Dr. Ledbetter’s research highlighted in “Pillars of Immunology” series in the Journal of Immunology
The elucidation of the costimulatory pathway of T cell activation by Dr. Ledbetter is a fundamental contribution. This is recognized by many scientists and exemplified by the recent inclusion of one of his publications (T-cell antigen CD28 mediated adhesion with B cells by interacting with activation antigen B7/BB-1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:5031-5035, July 1990) in the Journal of Immunology in the series of “Pillars of Immunology” (J Immunol 182(5): 2557-2563, 2009). The inclusion of key publications in this series is highly selective and accompanied by commentaries pointing out the significance of the work. Drs. Zhu and Chen from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine provided highly laudatory comments about the discoveries by Dr. Ledbetter and Linsley, concluding their remarks with ”As a result, T cell costimulation became one of the most exiting fields in immunology during the following decade”.
Dr. Starkebaum named Section Head at VA
Beginning in April, Dr. Gordon Starkebaum will begin a transition to resume the position of Chief of Arthritis Section at VA Puget Sound.
Dr. Elkon Receives Kirkland Scholar Award
Dr. Keith Elkon received the Kirkland Scholar Award 2009. This award will help fund the training of promising students and fellows in lupus research.
The Kirkland Scholar Program supports outstanding nationally recognized senior scientists who direct a research program focused on systemic lupus erythematosus.
In the News
April 2009 Newsletter
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