David Mack is the inaugural recipient of a new multi-year award established by Larry and Eileen Tietze for mid-career level scientists. The grant will support efforts to engineer stem cell-derived neuromuscular junctions for the purpose of studying the onset of neuromuscular diseases and testing potential therapeutics.
David Mack Receives Grant Award Read More »
Three members of the NDRG team; Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani and Cecelia Watson received awards as ISCRM Fellows for fiscal year 2021/2022
ISCRM Fellows Awards to Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani, and Cecelia Watson Read More »
David Mack has received a research grant from the Will Cure Foundation to support research concerning gene therapy for X-linked myotubular myopathy.
Will Cure Foundation Awards Research Grant to David Mack Read More »
Alec Smith has been awarded an Innovation Pilot Award by ISCRM. This Washington-State-funded one year grant will fund research into the effect of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on muscle spindles, the sensory receptor structures within skeletal muscle that allow us to sense the extent and speed of contraction of our muscles to permit coordinated movement.
ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award to Alec Smith Read More »
David Mack and Lisa Maves are co-Principle Investigators on a new NIH R01 grant – “Three-model platform for understanding DMD epigenetic mechanisms and advancing small molecule therapies“.
NIH Grant Awarded to David Mack and Lisa Maves Read More »
Today Changho Chun was informed that he has been awarded a predoctoral trainee position from the ISCRM Fellows program. The traineeship will support his work developing improved methods for producing induced pluripotent stem cell-based in vitro models of human ventral spinal cord, to be used for study of motor neuron diseases.
Changho Chun awarded ISCRM Fellows predoctoral trainee position. Read More »
NDRG’s efforts to obtain funding for our high school summer research internship for Seattle area underserved minorities have received a big boost by the inauguration of a fundraising page on UW Medicine’s Accelerate peer-to-peer fundraising site.
NDRG fund-raising page goes live Read More »
Alec Smith has received a 2 year Early Investigator Pilot award through a Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1), involving investigators at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, funded by the NIGMS.
Grant award to Alec Smith Read More »
Sofia Jepson has been selected as a member of the Husky 100. The Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students who are making the most of their time at the UW.
Sofia Jepson Honored Read More »
Alec Smith has received a Pilot Award from the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research.
Alec Smith Receives CTMR Pilot Award Read More »
