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UW joins USAID’s $125M project to detect emerging viruses with pandemic potential
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Erika Feutz
Data Manager, Global WACh ...
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Expansion and targeted maturation of germline HIV-1 bNAb-associated BCRs
The objective of this grant is to investigate the relationship between the relative frequencies of target B cells and the binding affinity of the immunogen with the expansion and maturation of the target B cells in polyclonal immune system in vivo. In...
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The disaster no major U.S. city is prepared for
The Washington Post analyzed the risks of a prolonged, citywide blackout coinciding with a more severe heat wave. Experts warn this type of catastrophe — a combined power outage with a heat wave — is a scenario that cities and states are unprepared for....
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Gene Variants Found to Raise Infection Risk among HIV-exposed People
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Lifting the fog: Applying the COVID-19 toolbox to future pandemics
It had been 100 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic, and researchers knew it was only a matter of time until another deadly disease arrived. ...
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Reproductive empowerment and contraceptive choice among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya: A person-centered approach to unintended pregnancy prevention (The MARA Study)
In this project, we are adapting a validated measure of sexual and reproductive empowerment for the Kenyan context, which we are using in tandem with discrete choice experiment method to better understand adolescent girls’ and young women’s preferences...
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Lessons from Africa on How to Fight an Infection (UW Medicine - Quotes Ruanne Barnabas)
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NIH Awards $9.8M Grant to Research Consortium for HIV Vaccine Development
University of Washington is part of a consortium led by Seattle Biomed to develop a vaccine that would elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1. The $9.8m grant from NIH was announced March 10. Other members of the consortium include Seattle...
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Structure based drug design against sexually transmitted bacteria.
This is a multi-lab interdisciplinary effort to develop novel antibacterial compounds for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Mycoplasma genitalium. This project exploits key...