Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, professor of bioengineering and Vice Dean of Research and Graduate Education in the UW School of Medicine, for “national leadership in biomedical research, research policy, and graduate education, including pioneering novel drug delivery approaches for regenerative medicine applications in the nervous system and other tissues such as bone, cartilage, tendon and skin.”
The Molecular Analysis Facility (MAF) is a state-of-the-art characterization facility that provides high end characterization tools to all users in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
The MAF Characterization Workshop, Aug. 4-5, includes lectures in the morning and instrument demonstrations in the afternoon. Due to the capacity of our lab space, the registration number is limited. The Molecular Analysis Facility (MAF) at the University of Washington is near the Architecture Building (across the street from the MAF) at 4000 15th Ave NE.
The demonstrations on MAF instruments will provide application examples for much of the material covered in the workshop lectures. The Read More
June 3, 2025
Three UW faculty teams received the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute’s (MolES) new Pilot Awards. These awards, sponsored by MolES, aim to seed new research initiatives and support preliminary data generation. A committee of MolES faculty chose the projects. Each team will receive up to $10,000 in funding to kickstart their work.
The awards were created to support new collaborations spawning from MolES-sponsored scientific exchanges. This year, one scientific exchange focused on women’s health/sex differences in the manifestation of disorders, and a second scientific exchange between MolES, Benaroya Research Institute, and UW Immunology faculty discussed immune biology, next-generation analytical tools for immunology, and immune therapies. Read More
April 1, 2025
Imagine a building material that becomes stronger when stress is applied. Imagine being able to produce medications on demand, anywhere, with a 3D printer. Imagine biodegradable plastics with the same durability — but more adaptability — than their petroleum-based counterparts.
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David Bergsman, UW assistant professor of chemical engineering, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) Thin Film Division Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award.
Xiaodong Xu, professor of physics in the College of Arts & Sciences and MolES member, was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery . Read More
Three University of Washington faculty members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, including MolES member and assistant professor of chemistry, Dianne Xiao. Read More
Corie L. Cobb, ME professor and Washington Research Foundation Innovation Professor in Clean Energy, has been named a 2024 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
NAI Fellowship is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors. Those chosen for induction have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Nov. 4, 2024
Four UW faculty teams received the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute’s (MolES) new Pilot Awards . These awards aim to seed new research initiatives and support preliminary data generation. They are sponsored by MolES with matching funds from the Sepsis Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) and Kidney Research Institute (KRI). A four-member committee from the sponsoring institutes chose the projects. Each team will receive up to $10,000 in funding to kickstart their work.
The awards were created after several scientific exchanges with MolES faculty, SCORE and KRI members. Read More
Imagine a material that can be stretched and pulled out of shape that not only returns to its original shape but also grows stiffer and stronger each time. University of Washington researchers have developed a new “strain learning” metamaterial. Inspired by how nature strengthens materials—like how bones repair themselves or how spider silk becomes stronger when stressed—this innovation could significantly impact industries that rely on durable, adaptable materials, especially medicine. Their work, “Strain learning in protein-based mechanical metamaterials,” has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).